Re: Monitoring external SMTP service

[Christian Bianchi]

Yes, in the meantime i took a look at the soruces and understood it's
hardcoded :/

thanks anyway for your response

Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:26:13 +0100From: Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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Hmm, seems I misunderstood the problem. I didn't read the whole
thread, and someone informed me that the problem was in the SMTP test,
not in sending mail from Monit. In the SMTP test (if failed host
192.168.1.100 port 25 protocol smtp then..) localhost is in fact
hardcoded in EHLO. So no luck.
On Jan 5, 2012, at 5:08 PM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Christian Bianchi wrote:>>> the host(s) are ok 
>> (but i removed the unneded one).>> i made a scan with tcpdump and found that 
>> monit puts "EHLO localhost">> and my smtp server responds with: "Response: 
>> 551 sorry, your domain is>> not correct">> is there a way to specify the 
>> domain instead of "localhost"?>> Yes, from the manual: 
>> http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#setting_a_mail_server_for_alert_messages>>
>>                Monit, by default, use the local host name in SMTP HELO/EHLO 
>> and in the>               Message-ID header. Some mail servers check this 
>> information against DNS for>               spam protection and can reject 
>> the email if the DNS and the hostname used in>               the transaction 
>> does not match. If this is the case, you can override the>               
>> default local host name by using the HOSTNAME option:>>               set 
>> mailserver mail.tildeslash.com using hostname "myhost.example.org"
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