Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output
On Sun 12 Oct 2014 at 15:42:49 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:45:44PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> > And if so, is that not acquired from /etc/hosts?
> > snip
> >> Egad ... I just noticed that was from a different machine... but the
> >> format is the same on all of mine. So still should stand as something
> >> to critique/
> >
> > Debian's exim4 will take the contents of /etc/mailname over the dns name by
> > default. I'd recommend putting the fqdn that you want exim to use there.
>
> OK that is very good tip to know about.
Please read about "System mail name" in exim's README.Debian.gz and look
at mailname(5). The HELO used has nothing to do with /etc/mailname.
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