On Thu 18 Aug 2016 at 11:50:55 -0400, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > > I just changed /etc/mailname on all of my machines to contain: > > > > qobi@upplysingaoflun>cat /etc/mailname > > purdue.edu > > You know it makes sense to do this. :) > > I had never manually edited /etc/mailname. I took whatever what put there by > the debian installer perhaps as modified by whatever packages I installed and > by running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config.
/etc/mailname has to be sensible for your situation. I usually have to edit it to get something which makes sense in my situation. How did telnet go?