Bug#259459: exim4-config: description and role of mailname incoherent, better wording suggested

[Ralph Katz]

On 11/29/2004 05:30 AM, Andreas Metzler wrote:

[...]

> Because the concept and description of "mailname" is agreed upon in 
> Debian. - It is defined in policy 
> <http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s-mail-transport-agents>.
> 
> 
> I agree that the way we use mailname currently for nullmailer setups 
> (as a *internal* name only) is broken. I intend to change /that/.

Yes, thanks!  And apologies for letting my frustration with this bug
slip into my earlier email.

Maybe you could use the very language from the Debian policy page you
cited, slightly edited perhaps as:

Please enter the "mail name" of your system.  This is the hostname
portion of the address to be shown on outgoing mail messages.
The default is <hostname>, your system's host name; the output
of hostname --fqdn.  The "mail name" is needed by exim4 and other
programs.  To change the appearance of originating email addresses,
you can enable rewriting in /etc/email-addresses.

Meanwhile, my /etc/email-addresses rewrites 'user: someone@isp.com' as:
'From: user <someone@isp.com>'  but gives no help to create:
'From: Joe User <someone@isp.com>.'

Regards,
Ralph