Bug#503431: exim4: please allow relaying by FQDN as well as by IP

[Chris Carr]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.69-9
Severity: wishlist


Hi there,

It would be helpful if the "machines to relay mail for" segment of 
dpkg-reconfiguring exim4-config would accept FQDNs as well as IP 
addresses. This would mean performing a look up each time a relay was 
attempted, I guess.

Regards,

Chris

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 30-Sep-2008 18:26:35
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb 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'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to replace
# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='dbass.homelinux.com;terminalarrogance.com'
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost='terminalarrogance.com'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets='212.85.13.68/32;192.168.1.0/24;86.2.121.186/32'
dc_smarthost='smtp.ntlworld.com'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='maildir_home'
mailname:baba.sadnet

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.22     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                    4.69-9     support files for all Exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.69-9     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon

exim4 recommends no packages.

exim4 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4/drec: