On 2018-02-23, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu 22 Feb 2018 at 11:58:18 -0600, David Wright wrote: > >> On Mon 19 Feb 2018 at 18:39:02 (+0000), Brian wrote: >> > On Mon 19 Feb 2018 at 10:23:56 -0600, David Wright wrote: >> > >> > > $ cat /etc/mailname >> > > alum >> > >> > Debian's exim4 README says that mailname should be a FQDN. I find that >> > useful for sending mail to "anotheruser". >> >> Sorry, but I haven't been able to work out what you mean. >> Is "anotheruser" a username on the same system, somebody or >> some machine on the LAN, or something different? > > Exim will qualify all unqualified addresses with mailname. "anotheruser" > could be a user on the system or have an email account elsewhere. > With mailname as gmail.com a mail sent to or cc'ed to tom123 would go to > tom...@gmail.com. >
I'm informed over at the wiki that Exim doesn't read /etc/mailname; rather, at configuration time, when requesting the system's "visible name," Exim stores the value of visible name in /etc/mailname (amongst other places). But it doesn't subsequently read that file for that value, and changing /etc/mailname has no effect on Exim. You probably already knew this, but there was a certain ambiguity. https://wiki.debian.org/EtcMailName -- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” -Oscar Wilde
