I have a simple question concerning configuration of exim4, visible mail name.
One page of the configuration asks for "system mail name". My FQDM is teufel.hartford-hwp.com, and that's what I've been using here with success. The directions say: "The 'mail name' is the domain name used to "qualify" mail addresses without a domain name. I understand this to mean that if there is a message coming to the teufel host that does not specify the domain, this defines what is apprended to "teufel" to construct the FQDM: teufel.hartford-hwp.com. However, in the example offered by the directions it says, "For example, if a mail address on the local host is [EMAIL PROTECTED], then the correct value for this option would be domain.example." I don't understand the format of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". What does "example" refer to, the top level domains such as .org or .com? If so, then the value needed here would not be the FQDN, but simply the domain: hartford-hwp.com And then I read an authoritative rundown of exim configuration, visible mail name (http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/networking/exim.html) where it says: "What is the `visible' mail name of your system? ... Press return to select the default, that is, the host name of your machine. (You can see it in /etc/hostname .)" Indeed, with a new configuration, the default value that appears here is the host name, teufel, and this is the value that appears in /etc/hostname. So I come up with three conflicting interpretations of what value should be used for visible mail name. Haines Brown -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
