On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:03:31PM +0000, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:48:23 -0700 (MST), Kevin W. Reed <listaccount@???>
> penned:
[...]
> > primary_hostname =
> >
> > Might help (with a hostname of course...)
> >
> > Make sure you restart Exim to see the change in the configure file.
> Sure does! Thank you very much.
> Last night, a friend suggested ordering the machine's IP entry in
> /etc/hosts such that the fqd name appeared before the simply machine
> name, and that worked as well. Is there anything wrong with that
> approach?
No, that is the correct solution.
> Certainly primary_hostname is a cleaner, surer way to handle the
> problem.
No, on a correctly configured system there is usually no need to
use primary_hostname.
cu andreas
