On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:12:27AM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > When I configured exim (with `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config`), I told it that > my system mail name was "foobar.com" (actually I didn't, but we'll pretend > that's what I called it). /etc/mailname contains "foobar.com" as well, but > when sending mail exim issues "EHLO localhost.localdomain", and when receiving > mail it adds the line "Recieved: from sender.whatever.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) by > localhost.localdomain" > > Either my box is schizophrenic, exim is borked, or I'm braindead. How do I > get > exim to report my box's real hostname?
I had to make my /etc/hosts file like this before exim4 worked right in this respect: 127.0.0.1 foobar.com localhost not 127.0.0.1 localhost foobar.com
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