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postfix package

  1. Bug #2019195
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 2019195

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Mitchell Dzurick (mitchdz) wrote (last edit ):

Shouldn't postfix improve handling a user setting myhostname with a trailing dot? Or is it just expected to allow the user to set the value and then encounter the error later?

e.g. From Lain's #15 comment

# postconf -e myhostname=mail. mydomain=example.com
# newaliases
newaliases: warning: valid_hostname: misplaced delimiter: mail.
newaliases: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter myhostname: bad parameter value: mail.

It sounds like in this scenario myhostname should expand to mail.example.com without an error.

However I do agree this is a weird scenario and I doubt any user will set their hostname with a trailing dot intentionally