Bug#481597: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config does not recognize changed hostname

[Andrew Vaughan]

On Saturday 24 May 2008 02:43, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 07:34:22PM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> > I changed the hostname on my home server.  I changed /etc/hostname and
> > /etc/mailname, rebooted and ran dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config thinking
> > that that should be enough to get exim configured for the new
> > hostname.
>
> Did you also change your /etc/hosts?

No, but the new hostname is listed as an alias (and has been for 2 years).  

Experimenting shows that this does seem to the the problem.  Changing the 
order so that the new hostname is listed first fixes the displayed name in 
exim4-config question 5.  I'll check whether mail from cron gets delivered.

Perhaps exim4-config could be changed to automatically add /bin/hostname -a 
to the list of automatic list of "local domains" in debconf question 5.

Note that I consider the fact that exim was unable to notify me about the 
stuck mail as part of the justification for the important bug severity.

Andrew