Which is what I figured. I have several domains hosted on this box so my masq is setup and CW directive but I still get a localhost entry in my headers. Maybe this is nothing to worry about, but occassionally I have trouble getting mail to Yahoo accounts and wondered if this could be the problem. So many ISP's are looking for ways (excuses?) to refuse mail these days, understandably I guess. <<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Bret Hughes <bhughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: 07 Oct 2003 23:38:43 -0500 Subject: Re: localhost in email headers > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 08:32, Joe Polk wrote: > > When you have a line like this: > > Received: from foo.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) > > is it advantageous to remove your localhost entry from /etc/hosts to keep > > this from happening? If not, should this be corrected and if so, how? > > > > NO! do not remove that line from /etc/hosts there are several services > that need to be able to resolve 127.0.0.1 to a name. > > Bret > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ------- End of Original Message ------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
