Package: exim4-config Version: 4.50-8 Severity: important The file /etc/mailname is used to form the default host part of e-mail addresses in the From line of various programs. For instance, debchange -i will use it for its changelog messages. reportbug uses it for bug reports. Many programs use it.
exim4-config is generating a bad /etc/mailname that leads to many troubles. I remember submitting a bug about this before, but I can't find it. Also, exim4-config's behavior is completely at odds with the other MTAs in Debian, such as postfix or sendmail. On my system, its hostname is fritz.complete.org and the mailname should be complete.org. The name fritz.complete.org can appear in Received headers and the like, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] is NOT a valid e-mail address at all. After going through exim4's configuration, it set up /etc/mailname to be fritz.complete.org, although it is properly using complete.org in headers it generates itself. However, this bad /etc/mailname value is leading other programs to use the wrong headers. Worse, a grep through /etc/exim4 couldn't find an instance of /etc/mailname, so I know exim4 is using it somehow, but I can't figure out where. -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.50 #1 built 27-May-2005 08:08:19 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004 Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December 3, 2003) Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated # /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf # # Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf # yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' # # Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes # to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local # changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess # around with multiple versions of the file. # # update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace # the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files. # # Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the # Debconf configuration, but not all of them. # # This is a Debian specific file dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite' dc_other_hostnames='localhost.localdomain' dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1' dc_readhost='complete.org' dc_relay_domains='' dc_minimaldns='true' dc_relay_nets='' dc_smarthost='glockenspiel.complete.org' CFILEMODE='644' dc_use_split_config='true' dc_hide_mailname='true' dc_mailname_in_oh='true' mailname:fritz.complete.org -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.12 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages exim4-config depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii passwd 1:4.0.3-31sarge5 change and administer password and -- debconf information: exim4/dc_noalias_regenerate: false * exim4/dc_smarthost: glockenspiel.complete.org exim4/dc_relay_domains: exim4/dc_relay_nets: * exim4/mailname: fritz.complete.org * exim4/dc_local_interfaces: 127.0.0.1 * exim4/dc_minimaldns: true exim4/exim3_upgrade: true * exim4/dc_other_hostnames: localhost.localdomain * exim4/dc_eximconfig_configtype: mail sent by smarthost; no local mail * exim4/no_config: true exim4/hide_mailname: true * exim4/dc_postmaster: jgoerzen * exim4/dc_readhost: complete.org * exim4/use_split_config: true exim4/internal/exim4-config.reconfigure: false exim4/exim4-config-title: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
