Bug#244095: marked as done (exim4: Should "satellite" use /etc/mailname as "visible name" and abolish dc_readhost?)
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From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>
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Subject: exim4: Should "satellite" use /etc/mailname as "visible name" and abolish dc_readhost?
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Package: exim4
Version: N/A; reported 2004-04-16
Severity: important
According to policy:
| If your package needs to know what hostname to use on (for example)
| outgoing news and mail messages which are generated locally, you
| should use the file /etc/mailname. It will contain the portion after
| the username and @ (at) sign for email addresses of users on the
| machine (followed by a newline).
This is not entirely clear but imho the way we use mailname is clearly
broken. - We use it as a only locally visible item, instead of "the
hostname portion of the address to be shown on outgoing news and mail
messages"
I have pondered this a little bit and I think we might be able fix it
this way:
#1 Do not use /etc/mailname as qualify_domain for sat-sys. Leave it
unset and use the fqdn.
#2 do not make /etc/mailname a part of local_domains for sat-sys.
#3 abolish dc_readhost and rewrite *@+local_domains to $1@/etc/mailname
Could this work?
cu andreas
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From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
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This bug is fixed in 4.43-3, the respective changelog says:
* make nullmailer setup and the way we use mailname a lot more sensible,
attacking #244095 and #280207:
- mailname is not implicitely made a local domain, instead it is listed
explicitely in dc_other_hostnames, where users can easily remove it
from. (This is basically what postfix does, too.) When upgrading
existing installations mailname is automatically added _once_ to
dc_other_hostnames, on fresh installations mailname is the default
value of dc_other_hostnames. We store the fact that we have added
mailname to dc_other_hostnames in $dc_mailname_in_oh in
update-exim4.conf.conf.
- Make exim work correctly if dc_readhost ("visible, rewritten domain name
for local users") ends up as part of local_domain, which happens if
the same value is chosen for mailname and dc_readhost. This
implemented by new router, hub_user_smarthost. Previously users were
required to use something different (my.invalid.domain) for mailname.
- Special thanks to Christian Perrier for taking care of the
template translation updates.
cu andreas
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