Bug#315128: /etc/mailname clarfication

[Manoj Srivastava (va, manoj)]

Hi,

 Umm, policy states:
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11.6. Mail transport, delivery and user agents
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     ...

     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).

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        Seems pretty unambiguous to me, but then, I am biased ;-).
 My take is that Postfix, sendmail, reportbug, and most other programs
 are doing the right thing, and Exim4 needs to be fixed.  Received
 lines never contain an username or @ symbols, which seems to be
 another indication that policy is not talking about them.

        manoj
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