Re: /etc/mailname clarfication
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:24:41AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> I believe that /etc/mailname should be the host part of the e-mail
> address. Postfix, sendmail, reportbug, and most other programs I've
> used treat it that way.
As mentioned in http://wiki.debian.net/?EtcMailName, exim4 does handle
/etc/mailname in the same way. exim4 uses /etc/mailname to qualify
recipients.
> The Exim4 maintainer believes that /etc/mailname should instead be the
> hostname as visible in Received lines.
No, I do not believe that. In fact, I have not been able to verify the
claims John makes on my test system. I have tried reproducing his
setup in my lab, and the Received headers come out just fine. See my
messages to bug #315128. John, can you please try to find out what
happens on your system? I suspect that your /etc/hosts resolves your
local IP address as "complete.org", while that one should definetely
resolve to the actual host name.
> In my case, I want fritz.complete.org to be in Received, and
> complete.org in From lines. Exim4 expects fritz.complete.org to be in
> /etc/mailname, and thus messes up all sorts of other programs.
I do not think that Exim4 expects fritz.complete.org to be in
/etc/mailname.
> The Exim4 maintainer would like clarficiation in policy about this
> issue.
Not only about this issue, but about the issues raised in
http://wiki.debian.net/?EtcMailName as well.
Greetings
Marc
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