On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:23:50AM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2008 21:00, Marc Haber wrote: > > Oh, interesting. Thanks for spotting this, fixed in svn (it is > > actually only an error message that is not sent to /dev/null before > > properly handling that case). > > > I don't mind the error message. Afaict it only appears if the local > hostname is not resolvable. (And you have suggested that that should be > considered a configuration error). > > What concerns me is that exim4-config attempts to get the fqdn, but accepts > an empty string and then happily continues as though nothing is wrong.
What else should it do? > > > I guess that the FQDN at startup can legitimately be different from the > > > FQDN at debconf question 3, otherwise you wouldn't be asking question > > > 3. > > > > The debconf questions do not have numbers (and it depends on your > > answers to previous questions wether they are asked or not, so the > > numbers are in fact meaningless). Which question wording do > > you mean? > > > The "mail name" is the domain name used to "qualify" mail addresses > without a domain name. > This name will also be used by other programs. It should be the > single, full domain name (FQDN). > For example, if a mail address on the local host is > [EMAIL PROTECTED], then the correct value for this option would > be domain.example.... > > Thanks for your work in Debian. Yes, that's important for a host that regularly changes its external IP address, for example if it directly connects via PPPoE. You wouldn't want to send out mails as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
