[Pkg-exim4-users] configureing exim4 - setting hostname

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2005-06-13 Greg Post <gpost@pierwisconsin.org> wrote:
[...]
> Everything seems to be working except for outgoing mail.

> When I check the logs I see:

> Jun 13 13:55:53 2005 (7022) delivery to someone@somewhere.tld failed
> with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused')

> Upon further inspection, I noticed that if I telnet to port 25 I see the
> following:

> 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Exim 4.50 Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:34:45
> -0500

> My guess is that the connection is being refused because my server is
> not reporting a valid host.domain (instead it is reporting
> localhost.localdomain)

Hello,
I don't think so. The remote host is rejecting the connection before
exim has identified itself in ehlo.

You can verify this with
swaks -s the.remote.server.that.failed -f 'gpost@pierwisconsin.org' \
   -t postmaster -q rcpt

> So down to the real question:  Where do I set the hostname and domain
> for exim4?  I am using single file method for exim configure. 

Give your host a real name instead of "localhost" (in /etc/hostname).
                 cu andreas
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