Re: exim4: Hide local mail name in outgoing mail. domainname for dsl user
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:41:05 +0100, Leonardo Canducci
<leonardocanducci@yahoo.it> wrote:
> is that a good choice for a standalone pc with dsl fulltime internet
> access configured as "mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or
> fetchmail"?
> shouldn't the same task be handled by /etc/email-addresses file?
>
The first.
> one more question: shuld such a pc (connected via a dsl provider) have a
> domain name if I don't have any registered domain such as foo.org?
> would it make sense using my provider's domain name (even if my email
> address is not user@provider.org)?
> in other words, what's the right answer for "domain-name" question when
> configuring netbase package in such a case?
>
If you don't have a registered FQDN, put a bogus one, like "foo.org",
it will only used for local e-mail deliver, for example cron output.
You can use your DSL provider as a mail relay, but remember to set in
your MUA the "reply to:" field to your assigned e-mail address, or
fiddle with your MTA envelope rewriting rules...
Andrea
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