Bug#284755: marked as done (exim4: Default localhost description in /etc/hosts causes Exim to send HELO localhost.localdomain)
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From: Ivar Zarans <iff@gw.reisiekspert.ee>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: exim4: Default localhost description in /etc/hosts causes Exim to send HELO
localhost.localdomain
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Package: exim4
Version: 4.34-8
Severity: important
When /etc/hosts has localhost described as (default in Debian Sarge):
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
then Exim uses "localhost.localdomain" as name in HELO command. Some
mailers are rejecting connections with incorrect hostname as HELO
parameter.
Rewriting /etc/hosts localhost entry as:
127.0.0.1 localhost
fixes this problem, but Exim should handle default /etc/hosts properly.
-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.34 #1 built 20-Nov-2004 11:32:14
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (May 26, 2004)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Contains exiscan-acl patch revision 21 (c) Tom Kistner [http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/]
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='internet'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains='reisiekspert.ee:travel2baltics.com:conference-expert.com'
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets='mail.reisiekspert.ee:bali.reisiekspert.ee:eve.matti.ee:travel.reisiekspert.ee:212.47.197.9:212.47.197.10:212.47.197.11'
dc_smarthost=''
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname=''
mailname:gw.reisiekspert.ee
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-gensrv
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii exim4-base 4.34-8 EXperimental Internal Mailer -- a
ii exim4-daemon-heavy 4.34-8 Exim (v4) with extended features,
-- no debconf information
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Subject: Re: Bug#284755: exim4: Default localhost description in /etc/hosts causes Exim to send HELO localhost.localdomain
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On 2004-12-08 Ivar Zarans <iff@gw.reisiekspert.ee> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.34-8
> Severity: important
> When /etc/hosts has localhost described as (default in Debian Sarge):
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> then Exim uses "localhost.localdomain" as name in HELO command.
[...]
No, it does not. It uses the hostname of the local machine, as given
by
hostname --fqdn
and set in /etc/hostname.
If your machine thinks its FQDN is localhost.localdomain it is
misconfigured.
cu andreas