Re: /etc/mailname clarfication
Hi,
Umm, policy states:
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11.6. Mail transport, delivery and user agents
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If your package needs to know what hostname to use on (for example)
outgoing news and mail messages which are generated locally, you
should use the file `/etc/mailname'. It will contain the portion
after the username and `@' (at) sign for email addresses of users on
the machine (followed by a newline).
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Seems pretty unambiguous to me, but then, I am biased ;-).
My take is that Postfix, sendmail, reportbug, and most other programs
are doing the right thing, and Exim4 needs to be fixed. Received
lines never contain an username or @ symbols, which seems to be
another indication that policy is not talking about them.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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