[I may be misunderstanding how your mail system works but your Date: header doesn't look right]
On Sun 19 Oct 2014 at 00:53:44 +0200, lee wrote: > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: > > > On Fri 17 Oct 2014 at 03:15:49 +0200, lee wrote: > > > >> There is no mentioning of /etc/mailname here. Perhaps that's an > >> ideosyncrasy of the automatic configuration. > > > > No. It's because there is no connection between /etc/mailname and > > primary_hostname. > > Then how does it happen that Debian manages to configure exim in such a > way that the contents of /etc/mailname are being used instead of the > hostname? Is that another option exim has, and if so, how's it called? The contents of mailname are not used for the HELO. If /etc/mailname exists exim will not touch it when it is installed. If it does not exist it makes the assumption that canonical_hostname in the hosts file is correct and uses that as the mailname. The installation is at priority low or medium (I forget which) and no questions are asked. Suppose the hosts file has 127.0.1.1 debian.lan debian This probably doesn't matter for most things the machine is used for but for an MTA it may be crucial. Any unqualified address will be qualified with debian.lan; user becomes u...@debian.lan. You can see the possible routeing problems which could arise for a mail envelope with this in the To or From. Exim also HELOs with debian.lan; it looks like mailname and the HELO are connected but it is only an artifact of the install procedure. > I seem to vaguely remember an option to specify the HELO string, and I > couldn't find it anymore because I don't remember how it's called. primary_hostname is used as the HELO but Debian doesn't set it. Also, the exim maintainers aren't very keen on your using it in a configuration file. -- 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/19102014160733.49b1e0005...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
