Re: proper mailname

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

On 2008-02-23, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 18:17:28 +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
>> On 2008-02-23, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:37:33PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>=20
>> >> I'm using exim/fetchmail/mutt to send and receive mail. However, I've
>> >> noticed that several programs that try and send me messages are
>> >> confused - things like sudo and at, which try and mail messages to
>> >> root@sedgenet or tyler@sedgenet. sedgenet is just a made-up domain I
>> >> picked when I set up my laptop, but now I see that I need to tweak
>> >> something so that system-generated emails are properly routed. So
>> >> should I change my etc/mailname, or is there some way to set an alias
>> >> such that tyler@sedgenet and root@sedgenet are actually delivered to
>> >> real email addresses.
>> >
>> > You could also setup your mail client to check your local mailbox. =20
>> > Sylpheed and Claws-Mail can do this and I bet others as well. Or you=20
>> > could just use 'mail' on the console, or are you expecting a lot of=20
>> > local mail?
>> >
>> > If your exim is properly setup to send mail to the internet you could=20
>> > also add an alias in /etc/aliases, but that would make all local mail go=20
>> > across the internet, through your mailserver. Do you want that?
>> 
>> I think this is the problem - when at finishes a job it tries to send
>> a message through my mailserver to the address tyler@sedgenet, instead
>> of just dropping it in my local mailbox, var/mail/tyler. At least,
>> that's what I think is happening. One of the messages I got is copied
>> below, in case I'm misinterpreting the message and headers. My
>> mailname is sedgenet, but my hostname is blackbart. Should these
>> match? They're both invented names, and don't correspond to an actual
>> mail server anywhere.
>
> I think this should work:
>
> Make sure that /etc/mailname says "sedgenet".
>
> Then run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and set "System mail name" to
> "sedgenet" and "Other destinations for which mail is accepted" to
> "localhost;sedgenet". Leave the rest of the configuration as is
> appropriate for your system. After exim4 has been restarted, try this:
>
> echo "just a test..." | mail -s "test" tyler@sedgenet
>
> If this works, run "exim4 -bp" to check if there are any frozen messages
> stuck in the queue (in which case you can use "exim4 -qff" to make
> another delivery attempt for all of them). 
>

Thanks!

That seems to have done the trick.

Tyler