Martin Quinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:35:57PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Martin Quinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 
>> > According to upstream, valid email addresses have a dot in the right part.
>> >
>> > use something like foo.com as mailname, not foo alone.
>> >
>> > Bye, Mt.
>> 
>> I don't know. All my systems have only local names with no . in
>> them. Chroot or not. That is the way Debian Installer set it up.
>> 
>> Might be to restrictive.
>
> To build, yes, indeed. I hope that this is fixed now. 
>
> But to use the mail command, certainly not. You want your reply address to
> be valid outside of your box in any mail you send, don't you ? ;)

Usualy exim picks my full address out of /etc/email-addresses. Never
really thought about it but sending mail doesn't seem to involve
/etc/mailname or exim overwrites that /etc/email-addresses correctly.

I fixed the /etc/mailname now so either way the source will be
happy. Thx.

> Thanks, Mt.

MfG
        Goswin


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