Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output
On Fri 17 Oct 2014 at 03:15:49 +0200, lee wrote:
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>
> > On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 04:12:04 +0200, lee 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.
> >>
> >> You can also specify it in exims' configuration. Unless you do have
> >> good reason to do so, I'd advise against it and let exim use the host
> >> name (which the automatic configuration which I don't exactly recommend
> >> hopefully lets exim use unless you tell it otherwise).
> >
> > The HELO cannot be specified using dpkg-reconfigure. It is taken from
> > /etc/hosts.
> >
> > /etc/mailname can be specified with dpkg-reconfigure. It is not the best
> > of ideas to leave it blank.
> >
> > There is no connection between /etc/mailname and the HELO.
>
>
> "primary_hostname Use: main Type: string Default: see below
>
> This specifies the name of the current host. It is used in the default
> EHLO or HELO command for outgoing SMTP messages (changeable via the
> helo_data option in the smtp transport), and as the default for
> qualify_domain. The value is also used by default in some SMTP response
> messages from an Exim server. This can be changed dynamically by setting
> smtp_active_hostname."[1]
>
>
> There is no mentioning of /etc/mailname here. Perhaps that's an
> ideosyncrasy of the automatic configuration.
No. It's because there is no connection between /etc/mailname and
primary_hostname.
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