Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I see there's a file /etc/mailname in my woody box which doesn't seem >to belong to any package:
It's supposed to be created by whatever package happens to need it first: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch5.html#s5.6 >But it is read by reportbug, for example, tto find my e-mail >address. Indeed, I've filed a bug report recently and the address in >the report was wrong (because reportbug just picked my username and >appended my ISP's domain name) -- the addres used was >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", instead of the correct >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > >What exactly should I do? I don't see that this is anything to do with /etc/mailname, as that simply states your default mail domain name. You could set either the $DEBEMAIL or $EMAIL environment variables, or use the --email option to reportbug to tell it to send mail from the appropriate address. You could also set up a rewrite rule in exim (assuming that's your mail transport agent) to rewrite outgoing mail with the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to have the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you look near the end of /etc/exim.conf, and read bits of the manual in /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz, it should be reasonably obvious what to do. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
