Package: icedove Severity: normal (only actually tested in thunderbird on stable, but icedove in sid has the exact same logic still in place)
In ./toolkit/components/startup/src/nsUserInfoUnix.cpp, and ./xpfe/components/startup/src/nsUserInfoUnix.cpp (files are identical except for a tweak in license text?) icedove retrieves the domainname from the uname-returned struct member "char domainname[]". However, this has nothing to do with DNS, despite the name: uname(2) says: "The domainname member (the NIS or YP domain name) is a GNU extension.". Indeed, domainname (in /proc, in getdomainname and in /bin/domainname (part of yp-tools), all refer to the NIS/YP domain name, and *not* to the DNS domain name. On Debian systems, programs should consult /etc/mailname, and if that file is missing use the same logic as "hostname -d" (which dnsdomainname is ttbomk an alias of). Or alternatively they should leave it up to the local MTA (/usr/sbin/sendmail) to append a domainname. It is a bug that thunderbird uses the NIS domainname: on non-NIS systems this will be empty anyway, on NIS systems this will be bogus is most cases. In our case, this has caused perhaps a dozen users over the past years to improperly configure their thunderbird causing mail issues, because they didn't realize the suggested email address was bogus (because the NIS domain is a shorthand for our organisation, is does look like 'intentional'). It is a feature request for thunderbird to use instead proper guessing of the domain name when making new accounts, simply dropping this bogus logic would downgrade this bug to a wishlist (or you can then close it as far as I'm concerned). Thanks, --Jeroen -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-k7 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
