Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: > 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.
"primary_hostname Use: main Type: string Default: see below This specifies the name of the current host. It is used in the default EHLO or HELO command for outgoing SMTP messages (changeable via the helo_data option in the smtp transport), and as the default for qualify_domain. The value is also used by default in some SMTP response messages from an Exim server. This can be changed dynamically by setting smtp_active_hostname."[1] There is no mentioning of /etc/mailname here. Perhaps that's an ideosyncrasy of the automatic configuration. [1]: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-main_configuration.html -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. -- 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/87fvents1m....@yun.yagibdah.de
