Re: [Nmh-workers] Stanford disliking my emails -- update + question

[Bob Carragher]

I'm not actually replying directly to Robert's message.  Rather,
I'm noting that I never received the copy from the mailing list;
only the one sent directly to me, and after a 33-hour delay
between Oz and GMail:

     [...]
     Received: from munnari.OZ.AU (munnari.OZ.AU. [202.29.151.3])
             by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 
m6si7752252obh.91.2015.04.24.01.39.10
             for <address@hidden>
             (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
             Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:39:24 -0700 (PDT)
     [...]
     Received: from perseus.noi.kre.to (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by munnari.OZ.AU 
with ESMTP
        id t3MNZIX5024587; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:35:43 +0700 (ICT)
     Received: from perseus.noi.kre.to (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by perseus.noi.kre.to (8.14.7/8.14.2) with ESMTP id t3MNYADA005974;
        Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:34:10 +0700 (ICT)

(I did see others' replies to it, that were sent to the mailing
list, and was waiting to see if I'd ever get a copy.)

                                Bob

On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:34:10 +0700 Robert Elz <address@hidden> sez:

>     Date:        Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:58:33 -0700
>     From:        Bob Carragher <address@hidden>
>     Message-ID:  <address@hidden>
> 
>   | One "help" page proposed the solution of
>   | adding an entry with a terminating period -- i.e.
>   | 
>   |      127.0.0.1       localhost ayukawa ayukawa.
> 
> If you're going to do that, the first one needs to be the one that's
> fully qualified - that's the "official" name in the /etc/hosts format
> (other names on the line are just aliases).
> 
> Personally I tend to have multiple entries for 127.0.0.1 - the first in
> /etc/hosts has the proper host name (and its obvious aliases) and another
> has the localhost variations (and then where appropiate, other lines have
> other names that I want to also equate with the host in question, either
> older names that are still sometimes seen, or role type names like 
> "webserver")
> 
> But it seems to me that:
> 
>   | Googling generally turns up "enter an FQDN into your /etc/hosts file,"
>   | but I don't have a valid FQDN.
> 
> is your real problem, and the solution really is simple.   Get one.
> 
> There are usually two options - first, most ISPs (and particularly e-mail
> suppliers) also supply FQDN's as part of their service - often at no extra
> charge (since it costs them nothing).  Of course that way your FQDN would
> be tied to the provider, and change whenever you switch providers, but if
> all you care about is having one for uses like HELO lines, etc, it would be
> fine (you just need to remember to reconfigure when required.)
> 
> I doubt google do that (though they might) but you have to be using someone
> else for actual connectivity, right?
> 
> Alternatively, getting a real domain, all of your own, is easy, and cheap,
> and there's no real excuse not to do it (look in the headers of this message,
> not From: etc, but the early Received headers, and the message-id, and you'll
> see I'm using kre.to which is a properly registered domain - .to isn't by
> any means the cheapest place, but it still isn't expensive ... these days 
> there
> are lots of possibilities.)
> 
> kre