Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:05 PM Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 11:22:58 -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 09:36 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
...
> Thanks, I will read the page in detail later. Meanwhile, I did a quick
> search on the page for "mailname" and didn't get anything. Anyway, what
> I really wanted to know was what function *you* thought /etc/mailname
> played in OpenSMTPD because it would determine what you chose for it.
>
> On Exim it is used to qualify a local part without a domain name. After
> I installed OpenSMTPD it seems to me that this is also what OpenSMTPD
> does. In other words, if I had mailname as gmail.com, a mail I send to
> tombrowder (no domain name) would go to tombrowder@gmail.com.
Brian, you may be right. I cannot find anything in the man pages, but
it may have been stated during the installation of the Debian package.
I'll uninstall and reinstall to see if I can capture the
instructions...
-Tom
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