Also, /etc/mailname is used by MTAs. This is from sendmail:
gabier% grep mailname /usr/sbin/sendmailconfig
mailname=$(cat ${sysconfdir}/mailname 2>/dev/null || hostname --fqdn);
[...]
I'd bet exim and others do something like this (if not, a bug should be
filed).
YA
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