Bug#302060: Should be able to leave DEBCONFvisiblenameDEBCONF empty

[Marc Haber]

tags #302060 confirmed pending
thanks

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:09:35AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> I want to leave DEBCONFvisiblenameDEBCONF empty so that qualify_domain
> is taken from the systems hostname. exim4-config lets me do that,
> but exim4.conf ends up with:
> 
> qualify_domain = 
> 
> And when I send mail from the box exim sends it as "root@".

Ouch. Now that you mention it... you're right.

> The correct thing to do would be something like:
> 
> .ifdef DEBCONFvisiblenameDEBCONF
> qualify_domain = DEBCONFvisiblenameDEBCONF
> .endif

Only "something like" since DEBCONFvisiblenameDEBCONF is not an exim
macro, but is replaced when the actual configuration is built. To
allow the ifdef to work, an intermediate step with a "real" exim macro
is necessary.

Committed to svn.

Greetings
Marc

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