Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.63-17
Severity: important
Hi
I changed the hostname on my home server. I changed /etc/hostname and
/etc/mailname,
rebooted and ran dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config thinking that that should be
enough to
get exim configured for the new hostname.
3 days later I realised that local mail from cron wasn't getting delivered. (I
later
discovered that warning messages from exim about delayed mail were also stuck).
Exim
was trying to send mail addressed to the new hostname via my isps smarthost.
(I have
verified that the mail from cron and exim was addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
A snippet from /var/log/exim4/mainlog (note p2 is the new hostname) (manually
wrapped).
2008-05-17 17:19:23 1JxFvd-0000xS-Th <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=root P=local S=2647
2008-05-17 17:19:24 1JxFvd-0000xS-Th == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost
T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer
(-44): SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
host mail.netspace.net.au
[203.10.110.70]: 450 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Recipient address rejected: Domain
not found
2008-05-17 17:23:07 Start queue run: pid=3927
2008-05-17 17:23:07 1JxFvd-0000xS-Th == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51):
retry time not reached
2008-05-17 17:23:07 1Jx8Oz-0003Mh-Jn == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51):
retry time not reached
2008-05-17 17:23:07 1JwtS6-0002gq-D7 == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51):
retry time not reached
I have worked around this by adding the new hostname to debconf question 5
Please enter a semicolon-separated list of recipient domains for which this
machine
should consider itself the final destination, apart from the local hostname
(andrew-p2.home.lan) and "localhost". These domains are commonly called
"local domains".
Leaving this list blank will have Exim do no local deliveries.
...
Notice that despite being re-configured and rebooted since /etc/hostname and
/etc/mailname
were changed, exim4-config still has the old hostname in this question. (It is
correct in
debconf question 3).
Thanks for your work in Debian.
Andrew V.
-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.63 #1 built 20-Jan-2007 10:40:39
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September 6, 2005)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis
nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='p2'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost='netspace.net.au'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='mail.netspace.net.au'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='maildir_home'
mailname:p2
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy
exim4-config recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
exim4/dc_noalias_regenerate: false
* exim4/dc_smarthost: mail.netspace.net.au
exim4/dc_relay_domains:
* exim4/dc_relay_nets:
* exim4/mailname: p2
* exim4/dc_localdelivery: Maildir format in home directory
* exim4/dc_local_interfaces: 127.0.0.1
* exim4/dc_minimaldns: false
exim4/exim3_upgrade: true
* exim4/dc_other_hostnames: p2
* exim4/dc_eximconfig_configtype: mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or
fetchmail
exim4/no_config: true
* exim4/hide_mailname: true
* exim4/dc_postmaster: andrew
* exim4/dc_readhost: netspace.net.au
* exim4/use_split_config: false
exim4/internal/exim4-config.reconfigure: false
exim4/exim4-config-title:
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