On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 10:10:17 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 02:59:14PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 09:18:33 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Second choice: > > > System mail name: > > > eeg.ccf.org > > > > Eighth choice: > > > Keep number of DNS-queries minimal? > > > No > > > > You didn't use "yes"? > > Of course not. Why would I do that? I'm not on dialup. I'm on a > corporate LAN where I run my own DNS nameservers.
It was the point of David Wright's mail and wouldn't have hurt. Also, it may have indicated 'hostname -f' is not so "rubbish" after all. > > It would also happily send a string without dots as the HELO. > > Isn't that controlled by the "System mail name" option? As you can A common misconception, no. It is the domain name used to qualify mail addresses without a domain name. Mail to brian would get sent as br...@eeg.ccf.org. > see, mine is set to eeg.ccf.org. Whether this is something I typed > into exim config by hand long ago, or something that it picked up > by itself from /etc/resolv.conf, I can no longer remember. You typed it in. Unless another program had configured /etc/mailname already. /etc/resolv.conf doesn't come into it. > Either way, I would have made sure it was correct. > > > Whether the remote server is happy is another matter. > > Indeed. A mail server should be properly configured, not just left as > "best guess from defaults". A mail server which accepts an EHLO without dots in it *is* properly configured. -- Brian.
