On Du, 19 mai 13, 13:51:01, Klaus Doering wrote: > > This email server is not directly connected to the 'net, it sits behind > a router. Thus, there is one external IP for which I've registered an "A" > record and an "MX" record on a public DNS server, and then there is an > internal IP server on my LAN. The later one is fixed, but is not defined > in a config file on the server, but is "reserved" in the DHCP server and > assigned to the server. Same for the domain name, which internally > (i.e. on my LAN) is distributed by the DHCP server. In "dnsmasq" this > would be the "domain=" option. And it is this option that is not > acknowledged by exim.
Let me try to put it differently: because server software (including if not especially mail servers) are usually on static IPs server software does not need to reconfigure itself based on information from a DHCP server. You would have to write your own scripts to achieve that. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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