Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome
On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 12:36:38 -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
> 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...
Instead, you can do 'dpkg-reconfigure opensmtpd'.
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Brian.
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