I can not force exim4 mailname, please help

[Marc Haber]

Hi Cameron,

>From /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz:

1.2. Getting Support

   For your questions and comments, there is a [2]Debian-specific mailing
   list. Please ask Debian-specific questions there, and only write to the
   upstream exim-users mailing list if you are sure that your question is
   not Debian-specific. Debian-specific questions are more likely to find
   answers on our pkg-exim4-users mailing list, while complex custom
   configuration issues might be more easily solved on the upstream
   exim-users mailing list because of the broader and more experienced
   audience there. You can subscribe to pkg-exim4-users [3]via the
   subscription web page; you need to be subscribed to post.

     2. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users
     3. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users

   If you think that your question might be more easily answered if one
   knows a bit about your configuration, you might want to execute
   reportbug --subject="none" --offline --quiet --severity=wishlist
   --body="none" --output=exim4.reportbug exim4-config on the system in
   question, answer yes to both "include [extended] configuration"
   questions and include the contents of the exim4.reportbug file
   generated by this command with your question. Please check whether the
   file contains any confidential information before sending.


Please make sure that you also tell us what you want to achive and
what happens instead. I can guarantee that the contents of
/etc/mailname _is_ used in the default configuration, so the chances
are high that you're expecting something different from what actually
happens. Unfortunately, you didn't tell your audience anything about it.

Greetings
Marc



On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 01:18:38AM +1100, Cameron James wrote:
> From: Cameron James <cameron at ibanez0r.org>
> Subject: I can not force exim4 mailname, please help
> To: pkg-exim4-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 01:18:38 +1100
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> Hi there i can not seem to force exim4 to use /etc/mailname
> 
> root at ip-172-31-16-131:/etc# uname -a
> Linux ip-172-31-16-131 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> root at ip-172-31-16-131:/etc# exim4 --version
> Exim version 4.80 #3 built 24-Jul-2014 03:28:10
> Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2012
> (c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file,
> 2007 - 2012
> Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.1.29: (October 25, 2011)
> Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM
> Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb
> dbm dbmjz dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
> Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
> Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
> Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
> Fixed never_users: 0
> Size of off_t: 8
> Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
> 
> Im sorry if ive posted this to the wrong place im at my witts end,
> ive tried for 2 hours and can not force exim4 to use the
> /etc/mailname any help would be really appreciated!
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Cameron James
> 
> 
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