[BlueOnyx:10700] Re: Mailman Monthly reminders sent from mailman-bounces at localhost.localdomain

[Christoph Schneeberger]

Tobias Gablunsky wrote:
> Today a fully patched 5107R sent out the monthly password reminders to the subscribers of mailman lists.
>
> I got many bounces telling me something like "Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 554 mailfrom without country or top level domain is administratively denied".
>
> And really, the sender address was like this: mailman-bounces at localhost.localdomain.
>
> Anybody knows what went wrong there? Seems to be a server-wide problem.
>
> Thanks, Tobias
>
>   
Tobias,

Please check the output of 'hostname -f' and also check what 'cat 
/etc/hosts' shows. I bet there is mess in there. On OpenVZ I fix it by 
just deleting the file and rebooting the VPS which recreates the file 
correctly.

Hth,
Christoph