Bug#348478: exim4: /etc/mailname not included in local_domains

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:22:30PM +0800, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> 
>>I am using the split config.  /etc/mailname says "malcolm.id.au".
>>When I run update-exim4.conf, the resulting autogenerated file includes:
>>
>>MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS = @:localhost:dsearch;/etc/mail/virtual
>>
>>ie. omitting /etc/mailname unless it is explicitly included in
>>update-exim4.conf.conf.
> 
> This is the designed behavior. /etc/mailname is used to qualify
> addreses in outgoing mail.
> 
>>This behaviour is contrary to the
>>documentation.
> 
> Which part of documentation is wrong?

update-exim4.conf(8):

   dc_other_hostnames

     is  used  to  build  the  local_domains  hostlist, together with
     "localhost" and the mailname. This is the list  of  domains  for
     which this machine should consider itself the final destination.

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