On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 04:12:04 +0200, lee wrote: > Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> writes: > > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:45:44PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > And if so, is that not acquired from /etc/hosts? > > snip > >> Egad ... I just noticed that was from a different machine... but the > >> format is the same on all of mine. So still should stand as something > >> to critique/ > > > > Debian's exim4 will take the contents of /etc/mailname over the dns name by > > default. I'd recommend putting the fqdn that you want exim to use there. > > You can also specify it in exims' configuration. Unless you do have > good reason to do so, I'd advise against it and let exim use the host > name (which the automatic configuration which I don't exactly recommend > hopefully lets exim use unless you tell it otherwise).
The HELO cannot be specified using dpkg-reconfigure. It is taken from /etc/hosts. /etc/mailname can be specified with dpkg-reconfigure. It is not the best of ideas to leave it blank. There is no connection between /etc/mailname and the HELO. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141013092602.gd17...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
