Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: > [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
You mean it will rewrite <u...@debian.lan> to <u...@example.com> when /etc/mailname is set to 'example.com'? > primary_hostname is used as the HELO but Debian doesn't set it. That's what I said? -- 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/87ppdm5z2u....@yun.yagibdah.de
