Hi! I have a debian sarge 3.1 2.6 stable and postfix as MTA.I keep on getting this warnings from postfix of a mail sent last week.what shall i do ??? thanks ! Security Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= May 9 22:23:01 mail postfix/smtp[11542]: E97BA9A855: to=<[email protected]>, relay=moria.seul.org[18.244.0.188], delay=421624, status=SOFTBOUNCE (host moria.seul.org[18.244.0.188] said: 550 <mail>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname (in reply to RCPT TO command)) May 9 22:23:01 mail postfix/smtp[11554]: A67799A84E: to=<[email protected]>, relay=moria.seul.org[18.244.0.188], delay=421719, status=SOFTBOUNCE (host moria.seul.org[18.244.0.188] said: 550 <mail>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname (in reply to RCPT TO command)) May 9 22:39:41 mail postfix/smtp[11582]: 586819A8DF: to=<[email protected]>, relay=moria.seul.org[18.244.0.188], delay=309590, status=SOFTBOUNCE (host moria.seul.org[18.244.0.188] said: 550 <mail>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname (in reply to RCPT TO command))
What's the sender's email address? Does it have a FQDN on the right side? What's the value of myhostname in /etc/postfix/main.cf? What's the output of Code: hostname -f ?
root@mail:~# postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases append_dot_mydomain = no biff = no config_directory = /etc/postfix delay_warning_time = 4h home_mailbox = Maildir/ inet_interfaces = all mailbox_size_limit = 0 message_size_limit = 0 mydestination = gabrix.ath.cx, mail.gabrix.ath.cx, localhost.gabrix.ath.cx, localhost mydomain = gabrix.ath.cx myhostname = mail mynetworks = 192.168.1.1,192.168.0.0/16,192.168.1.0/24,127.0.0.0/8 myorigin = $mydomain recipient_delimiter = + relayhost = smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name soft_bounce = yes root@mail:~# hostname -f mail.gabrix.ath.cx root@mail:~# hostname mail The mailname is gabrix.ath.cx which goes behind the @ gabrix.ath.cx correct ?
This isn't correct. Please run Code: postconf -e 'myhostname = mail.gabrix.ath.cx' and restart Postfix.
