Re: Exim using incorrect hostname [SOLVED]
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Chris Howie wrote:
> Daniel Webb wrote:
> > I had to make my /etc/hosts file like this before exim4 worked right in this
> > respect:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 foobar.com localhost
> >
> > not
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost foobar.com
the corrrect way should be:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
w.x.y.z exim.foobar.com exim mailhost mail ...
hostname -s should only return "mail
hostname -f should return mail.foobar.com
hostname -d should return foobar.com
if not... your dns is broken or /etc/hosts file
some apps seems to care about the order in /etc/hosts of the fqdn vs
the shortnames, while other apps doesn't care
c ya
alvin
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