myorigin doesn't work

[nix45]

I've set up a bunch of Postfix servers in the past, but I have these two new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS servers running Postfix that don't use the "myorigin" parameter for some reason.

mydomain = foo.com
myhostname = mail.foo.com
myorigin = $mydomain

Whenever I send mail out from the command line using either the mail or sendmail command, the mail will be sent as "root@mail.foo.com" instead of "root@foo.com". It uses whatever the hostname of the machine is...not the hostname listed in main.cf. If I run the command "hostname newname.foo.net" and then send mail out, it will go out as "root@newname.foo.net". I've never seen this problem before on any other servers.

Also, I tried addding the "masquerade_domain = foo.com" option but it didn't change anything.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[ericbrunson]

I know you can fix this with canonical.cf, but it does sound screwy.

 

[rburke]

Are you using the RPM from Red Hat or did you build it from source? If you are using the TPM then I would erase it and build it from source. It might be a Red Hat only thing.

Burke

 

[nix45]

I was using Red Hat's RPM that came with the distribution. I just uninstalled the RPM and built from source and everything works now with the same configuration. There is definitely something wrong with RH's RPM. I opened a support request with RH two days ago but haven't heard anything back.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[ericbrunson]

You'll probably have a better response opening a bug against the package.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla

 

[nix45]

I got it working with the RH RPM, but why its working I have no idea. I uninstalled the version that I installed from source, uninstalled Postfix and Sendmail, and then installed Postfix again via up2date. This time the myorigin parameter works with the same exact configuration as before.

Chris