MTA-Maintainers, please state how you handle /etc/mailname

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de
Sun, 1 May 2005 13:05:42 +0200


Hi,

a month ago, you received this e-mail:

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 07:08:55PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> the exim 4 maintainers have had quite much trouble with policy and
> handling of /etc/mailname since policy is not quite clear about what
> /etc/mailname should do and what not.
> 
> To be able to amend policy, we would like to solicit a statement of
> yours what exactly your package does with /etc/mailname.
> 
> I have tried to write an abstract of the situation and have put this
> information in the Debian Wiki on http://wiki.debian.net/?EtcMailName
> 
> I would appreciate if you could add to the wiki what your package does
> with /etc/mailname, and if you could also comment on any errors that I
> might have made on the wiki page.
> 
> If you don't have time or connectivity to put the information in the
> wiki directly, please reply to this e-mail (only to me please, not a
> group reply), and I will be happy to include your information into the
> wiki page. Please state if you do not want your message to be published.

Unfortunately, only xmail, postfix and exim have bothered to comment.
May I remind?

Greetings
Marc

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