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Date:  Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:32:13 +0100
From:  "Vapor" <bluequartz (at mark) vaporised.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:07510] Re: HELO problem
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Did this ever get resolved or anyone work out the syntax (or method otherwise) of 
fixing this? Even with the newer line in sendmail.cf with the if_name's in - only 
HELO's to main server fqdn.

Atm I've simply manually added IP and FQDN of the relevant server to /etc/hosts which 
works just fine. Dnsreport shows all is good.

Brian's hostfix adds the fqdn of the server for every IP added via gui aliases / adding 
a site - which may well be the issue as my own bodge above proves /etc/hosts is being 
checked by HELO - however, manually doing as I did just means Brian's fix doesn't re-
add lines and just reads blank (thankfully) inbetween his comment start/end lines (I 
added them under the cobalt section and above Brian's section).

Adding the fqdn as an additional alias on the IP line in /etc/hosts also failed to 
work, only if it is the only (or first) entry occuring for that IP does it work.

Seeing as this may be a "lookup" issue of sorts I also tried adding "db", "nis" and 
even removing "files" (leaving "dns" only) from the "hosts:" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf 
- none worked.

At least if you host important sites/hosts on unique IP's like me, this bodge works.

Brett