On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:24:41AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I believe that /etc/mailname should be the host part of the e-mail > address. Postfix, sendmail, reportbug, and most other programs I've > used treat it that way.
As mentioned in http://wiki.debian.net/?EtcMailName, exim4 does handle /etc/mailname in the same way. exim4 uses /etc/mailname to qualify recipients. > The Exim4 maintainer believes that /etc/mailname should instead be the > hostname as visible in Received lines. No, I do not believe that. In fact, I have not been able to verify the claims John makes on my test system. I have tried reproducing his setup in my lab, and the Received headers come out just fine. See my messages to bug #315128. John, can you please try to find out what happens on your system? I suspect that your /etc/hosts resolves your local IP address as "complete.org", while that one should definetely resolve to the actual host name. > In my case, I want fritz.complete.org to be in Received, and > complete.org in From lines. Exim4 expects fritz.complete.org to be in > /etc/mailname, and thus messes up all sorts of other programs. I do not think that Exim4 expects fritz.complete.org to be in /etc/mailname. > The Exim4 maintainer would like clarficiation in policy about this > issue. Not only about this issue, but about the issues raised in http://wiki.debian.net/?EtcMailName as well. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
