Quoting Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net>:
On 2011-02-17 09:56:35 +0000, Jonathan Plews wrote:I think that, unless it explicitly set, the hostname is derived form DNS lookups.No, I think that $HOST is obtained from /etc/hostname (AFAIK, it is set by Debian at installation time).you can test this with changes to /etc/hosts, hostname -f and the string exim gives on connect will be the same. x.x.x.x host host.domain.tld - will report just 'host'This is incorrect. You should not do this, see hosts(5) man page.
Just an illustration
x.x.x.x host.domain.tld host - will report 'host.domain.tld'"hostname -f" will report host.domain.tld, but this is not $HOST (which is used by monit). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
Sorry, I remembered having this issue but not how I got past it in the end, which was using 'set mail-format { from: mo...@domain.tld }' but I have not had to do this on all servers.
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