On Wednesday 12 November 2008 15:21:09 Rick Pasotto wrote: > I set /etc/hostname to 'niof.net' and restarted exim. The current host name is set with the 'hostname' program under Linux ... and possibly others - often from /etc/hostname, but sometimes from some obscure file like /etc/sysconfig/network. Most applications will look up the host name once, and cache it for as long as they run.
The fully qualified host name is looked up in /etc/hosts: 12.2.3.4 hostnamely.domain.foo hostnamely > However, that doesn't seem to be enough. Do I need to reboot? Set the host name properly, and restart exim. Failing that reboot, but you don't have to. > What puzzles me is that I have been sending and receiving mail for over > five years without a problem. I run several mailman mailing lists, one > with over 1600 addresses. This is the first host that has rejected my > mail. Maybe the increase in spam has resulted in a tightening up of the > protocols. Their clients occasionally wonder why they don't get all their mail. Since you like their customers, you help them out. &:-) -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
