Bug#401007: Re: Bug#401007: [i386][rc1][etch] (mostly) success: Dell Poweredge 1850

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:43:00AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I indeed reassign this bug because some parts concern exim4. I'm not
> really sure that the exim4 maintainers will consider this a bug, but
> let them give their advice:
> > 
> > 
> > # /etc/init.d/exim4 status
> > checking separate queue runner daemon...done (not running).
> > checking combined SMTP listener and queue runner daemon...done (running).
> > 
> > I was not asked to configure the mail system, but exim4 was installed with
> > the 'local delivery' configuration. Shouldn't the installer mention this?
> > Perhaps I missed the message.

This is mentioned in NEWS.Debian of the exim4-config packages. As the
"silent installation" was strongly pressed for by the d-i people, I
do not plan to change this any time soon.

> > Bug: exim4 auto-configuration assumes short hostnames
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> >      When prompted for the hostname by the installer I gave a 
> >      fully-qualified
> >      hostname.

I consider this a bug in the Installer, it should not allow fully
qualified names in response to the "what's the host name" question
during installation.

> >  This was propagated to /etc/mailname without stripping the domain
> >  name,

I think that it would be exim stepping out of bounds if we would not
believe the result of the hostname command when determining what to
write to /etc/mailname.

Greetings
Marc

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