On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote:
>>> Yes. And also to /etc/postfix/main.cf if postfix is installed. Or to >>> other places if other MTAs are installed. >> >> When you use "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" or "dpkg-reconfigure >> postfix", "/etc/mailname" is updated; in postfix's case because "my >> origin" is set to it in "/etc/postfix/main.cf". > > I thought it set 'myhostname'. No? I should try a pristine > installation and look. (Gmail's ever helpful autocorrect turned "myorigin" above into "my origin"...) AFAIR, "myhostname" is "/etc/hostname" and "myorigin" is "/etc/mailname". What I find somewhat weird is that when you install Debian, "/etc/hostname" and "/etc/mailname" are the same. So if it's "box.company.internal" and bob runs "mail tom", bob's address'll be "bob@box.company.internal". That's fine when emailing on a box or from one box to another within "company.internal". There was a debian-devel thread where there was an argument about whether "/etc/mailname" should be "box.company.internal" or "company.internal". If you you do a regular install or don't use a preseed that installs postfix, you'll have exim4 by default. You can then change "/etc/hostname" and "/etc/mailname", install postfix, and see what gets pulled in as "myhostname" into "/etc/postfix/main.cf". I'm going to try it too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=szxpn9tarycdah5nhmdvjt5orig6tyn6rb3fu+c04s...@mail.gmail.com
