On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:30:37PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:53:12PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > The file /etc/mailname is used to form the default host part of e-mail > > addresses in the From line of various programs. For instance, debchange > > -i will use it for its changelog messages. reportbug uses it for bug > > reports. Many programs use it. > > Right. Exim4 uses it to qualify the From: (envelope and header).
No, Exim4 uses it to qualify Received. That's my complaint. My From is "complete.org", my Received is "fritz.complete.org", and Exim4 is putting fritz.complete.org in /etc/mailname. > > exim4-config is generating a bad /etc/mailname that leads to many > > troubles. > > What exactly is a bad /etc/mailname? There is a Debconf question > asking about the mailname, and what is entered there ends up in > /etc/mailname. The problem is that "This name won't appear on From: lines ... if you enable rewriting." So, in the case above, I enabled rewriting, put fritz.complete.org here, and complete.org there, because I don't want my Received headers to show complete.org. It seems to me that /etc/mailname corresponds to the "rewriting" question, which is what is doing the real From line. > Well, we tried to find out what the other MTAs do, with quite > disappointing success. Every other MTA I've seen puts the host portion for the From line into /etc/mailname. > Take a look in ./conf.d/rewrite/31_exim4-config_rewriting. That wasn't very helpful; it seems to be mainly relating to /etc/email-addresses, which I don't use. The DEBCOnFrewriteemailaddresses_mailnameDEBCONF bit -- I have no idea what that's doing. > there is formal policy requiring us to change. There is too many > chance for bad breakage during upgrades. We might have been able to > change in fall 2004, but now, with sarge out of the door and exim4 > being installed on many systems out there, I seriously doubt that the > packages are going to change their behavior unless absolutely required. You've got bad system breakage now, with /etc/mailname being wrong causing havoc for all sorts of things. I think it is clear already what programs expect to find there. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
