Re: exim4 under jessie vs wheezy

[Jeffrey Mark Siskind <qobi@purdue.edu>]

Thanks for your help.

   >   # mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
   >   # default hostname
		 ^^^^^^^^
   >   # default 127.0.0.1 ; ::1
   >   # blank
   >   # blank
   >   # smtp.ecn.purdue.edu
   >   # yes
   >   # purdue.edu
   >   # no
   >   # mbox format in /var/mail
   >   # no

   What do you actually have here?
   (ie which ends up in /etc/mailname)

Note that I didn't change this. I accepted the default when the question was
asked.

qobi@upplysingaoflun>all+n cat /etc/mailname
tlamachilistli:
tlamachilistli.ecn.purdue.edu
zhineng:
zhineng.ecn.purdue.edu
chino:
chino.ecn.purdue.edu
buddhi:
buddhi.ecn.purdue.edu
seykhl:
seykhl.ecn.purdue.edu
maniishaa:
maniishaa.ecn.purdue.edu
alykkyys:
alykkyys.ecn.purdue.edu
mohio:
mohio.ecn.purdue.edu
seulki:
seulki.ecn.purdue.edu
rongovosai:
rongovosai.ecn.purdue.edu
faisneis:
faisneis.ecn.purdue.edu
jalitusteabe:
jalitusteabe.ecn.purdue.edu
cuddwybodaeth:
cuddwybodaeth.ecn.purdue.edu
istihbarat:
istihbarat.ecn.purdue.edu
wywiad:
wywiad.ecn.purdue.edu
upplysingaoflun:
upplysingaoflun.ecn.purdue.edu
verstand:
verstand.ecn.purdue.edu
arivu:
arivu.ecn.purdue.edu
perisikan:
perisikan.ecn.purdue.edu
aruco:
aruco.ecn.purdue.edu
save:
save.ecn.purdue.edu
akili:
akili.ecn.purdue.edu
aql:
aql.ecn.purdue.edu
qobi@upplysingaoflun>

   > What it does under jessie:
   > 
   >   (1) and (3) still work. (2) does not. I have never seen any mail to root but
   >   the people who maintain smtp.ecn.purdue.edu claim that mail to root on my
   >   machines gets sent to root@empty.

				 ^^^^^^^ meaning precisely?
   (ie using quotes if necessary).

I'd have to get back to you on this. I had asked this question of our
sysadmins and they gave me the above answer. I'll ask them for a more precise
answer.

(The Purdue maintained machines run Windows/MacOS/RHEL. This includes
smtp.ecn.purdue.edu and the whole email infrastructure. The Purdue sysadmins
don't know Debian. They are kind enough to let me maintain my own machines.)

   > What has changed from wheezy to jessie? As far as I can tell I am configuring
   > everything the same.
   > 
   > How do I get mail to root to forward to qobi@purdue.edu?

   Is there anything significant in /etc/mailnames ?

I have no file named /etc/mailnames
I only have a file named /etc/mailname
The full contents of this file on each of my machines is shown above.

    Jeff (http://engineering.purdue.edu/~qobi)