Re: exim HELO=fully qualified host name?
On 2004-02-06, David Clymer penned:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:11, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> On 2004-02-06, David Clymer penned:
>> > On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 09:07, davis wrote:
>> >> Hello
>> >>
>> >> I can not subscribe to the pcmcia-cs mailing list on source forge
>> >> because my helo only gives my host name and not my fully qualified
>> >> hostname. How do I resolve this problem?
>> >>
>> >> JD
>> >>
>> >
>> > You need to set exim's primary_hostname to your FQDN (or the
>> > equivilant configuration variable for your choice of MTA).
>> >
>>
>> I believe that exim will, by default, report the first entry in your
>> /etc/hosts file. So if you have
>>
>> 155.22.33.44 booger yoda www.sticky.net
>>
>> I believe exim will report the machine as booger.
>>
>> Just move the FQDN into the first slot and you should be fine.
>>
>> My understanding is that exim's primary_hostname setting is
>> considered a kludge and that it's "better" to use the above method.
>>
>
> I learn something new every day, it seems. I suppose I should modify
> my own server, if thats the case. Could you expound apon the
> "kludge-ness" of primary_hostname?
>
I wish I could. I just remember having this same problem and asking on
a list ... I think it was the exim-user mailing list, but I can't seem
to find the answer in the archives. I think the implication was "if
your canonical hostname isn't fully qualified, you have bigger problems
than exim. Don't patch exim's config -- fix the problem at its source."
--
monique
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