On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Ian D Crorie wrote:
> the '@' construct for domain lists in my configuration file isn't
> working correctly on these Linux Redhat boxes (as far as I can see):
>
>
> <57>pastis@ exim -bP local_domains primary_hostname
> local_domains = @:@.cee.hw.ac.uk:cee.hw.ac.uk:cee:cee.hw:cee.heriot-watt:cee.heriot-watt.ac.uk
^
^
Sorry, it recognizes "@" only as a complete item, not as part of a
longer item. I _think_ the wording in section 7.11 is clear, isn't it?
Since you are rewriting all short domains, you don't want that initial
"@" item because no address will ever match it. But...
> primary_hostname = pastis
Do you need that? Exim really likes to work with fully-qualified domain
names. Also, to be strictly compliant with the RFCs you need the FQDN
for the host so that it can be put in the HELO line in SMTP
transactions (not to mention Received: header lines).
If you don't set primary_hostname, it will look it up using uname(), and
if it finds an unqualified name, it will attempt to qualify it by
calling gethostbyname(). Would that work for you?
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