Thanks for your help.
> # mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
> # default hostname
^^^^^^^^
> # default 127.0.0.1 ; ::1
> # blank
> # blank
> # smtp.ecn.purdue.edu
> # yes
> # purdue.edu
> # no
> # mbox format in /var/mail
> # no
What do you actually have here?
(ie which ends up in /etc/mailname)
Note that I didn't change this. I accepted the default when the question was
asked.
qobi@upplysingaoflun>all+n cat /etc/mailname
tlamachilistli:
tlamachilistli.ecn.purdue.edu
zhineng:
zhineng.ecn.purdue.edu
chino:
chino.ecn.purdue.edu
buddhi:
buddhi.ecn.purdue.edu
seykhl:
seykhl.ecn.purdue.edu
maniishaa:
maniishaa.ecn.purdue.edu
alykkyys:
alykkyys.ecn.purdue.edu
mohio:
mohio.ecn.purdue.edu
seulki:
seulki.ecn.purdue.edu
rongovosai:
rongovosai.ecn.purdue.edu
faisneis:
faisneis.ecn.purdue.edu
jalitusteabe:
jalitusteabe.ecn.purdue.edu
cuddwybodaeth:
cuddwybodaeth.ecn.purdue.edu
istihbarat:
istihbarat.ecn.purdue.edu
wywiad:
wywiad.ecn.purdue.edu
upplysingaoflun:
upplysingaoflun.ecn.purdue.edu
verstand:
verstand.ecn.purdue.edu
arivu:
arivu.ecn.purdue.edu
perisikan:
perisikan.ecn.purdue.edu
aruco:
aruco.ecn.purdue.edu
save:
save.ecn.purdue.edu
akili:
akili.ecn.purdue.edu
aql:
aql.ecn.purdue.edu
qobi@upplysingaoflun>
> What it does under jessie:
>
> (1) and (3) still work. (2) does not. I have never seen any mail to root
but
> the people who maintain smtp.ecn.purdue.edu claim that mail to root on my
> machines gets sent to root@empty.
^^^^^^^ meaning precisely?
(ie using quotes if necessary).
I'd have to get back to you on this. I had asked this question of our
sysadmins and they gave me the above answer. I'll ask them for a more precise
answer.
(The Purdue maintained machines run Windows/MacOS/RHEL. This includes
smtp.ecn.purdue.edu and the whole email infrastructure. The Purdue sysadmins
don't know Debian. They are kind enough to let me maintain my own machines.)
> What has changed from wheezy to jessie? As far as I can tell I am
configuring
> everything the same.
>
> How do I get mail to root to forward to q...@purdue.edu?
Is there anything significant in /etc/mailnames ?
I have no file named /etc/mailnames
I only have a file named /etc/mailname
The full contents of this file on each of my machines is shown above.
Jeff (http://engineering.purdue.edu/~qobi)
