Sending proper email headers

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For several months, on & off, I've been trying to send mail from my server.

Whenever I send mail from my server, it gets rejected from the receiving server. Or at least most servers reject it. Google accepts my mail, meaning my server is sending it out.

I think I've pinpointed the problem. My server is sending the wrong headers. They say the email is being sent from "0gb-us.local", but it should be coming from "0gb.us". I've tried editing my Postfix config file & restarting my server, but it always has no effect, or causes Postfix to quit working entirely.

I've tried following a few guides, but it didn't have any visible effect. Can someone please help me?

For reference, here's a list of the headers I got from sending something from my server to my Gmail inbox:
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Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.229.33.4 with SMTP id f4cs25330qcd;
        Sun, 29 May 2011 16:00:07 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.231.73.195 with SMTP id r3mr5426034ibj.50.1306710007073;
        Sun, 29 May 2011 16:00:07 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from 0gb-us.local (c-76-115-148-84.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [76.115.148.84])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTP id h5si9428699ibd.53.2011.05.29.16.00.05;
        Sun, 29 May 2011 16:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 76.115.148.84 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of [email protected]) client-ip=76.115.148.84;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 76.115.148.84 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of [email protected]) [email protected]
Received: by 0gb-us.local (Postfix, from userid 70)
	id 7E7D2E0EE7; Sun, 29 May 2011 16:00:00 -0700 (PDT)
To: toname <[email protected]>
Subject: testmesage
X-PHP-Originating-Script: 501:mail.php
From: fromname <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 16:00:00 -0700 (PDT)
 
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Can you post the bounce back message you are getting back? That will usually help pinpoint why the receiving server is rejecting the mail.
 
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Oops, I got very busy, and didn't get back here to read your reply ... sorry. And thanks for trying.

As it turns out, every time I set my outgoing domain to 0gb.us, my mail server decided I was trying to RECEIVE mail at that domain as well. So, when I tried to send mail to myself, it got directed back at my own system, which didn't know what to do with it.

By adding a line to the config file, it cleared up:
mydestination =
Well, that was several months of frustration for just a simple problem.

For my own information, how do I see the bounce back message you were talking about?
 

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