Bug#613768: exim4 should include $HOST to local domains by default

[Jonathan Plews]

Quoting Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net>:

> On 2011-02-17 09:56:35 +0000, Jonathan Plews wrote:
>> I think that, unless it explicitly set, the hostname is derived form DNS
>> lookups.
>
> No, I think that $HOST is obtained from /etc/hostname (AFAIK, it is
> set by Debian at installation time).
>
>> you can test this with changes to /etc/hosts, hostname -f and the string
>> exim gives on connect will be the same.
>>
>> x.x.x.x    host   host.domain.tld - will report just 'host'
>
> This is incorrect. You should not do this, see hosts(5) man page.

Just an illustration

>
>> x.x.x.x    host.domain.tld   host - will report 'host.domain.tld'
>
> "hostname -f" will report host.domain.tld, but this is not $HOST
> (which is used by monit).
>
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>

Sorry, I remembered having this issue but not how I got past it in the  
end, which was using 'set mail-format { from: monit at domain.tld }' but  
I have not had to do this on all servers.

-- 
Jonathan Plews - jonathan at plews.org.uk

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