Bug#869871: exim4-config: /etc/mailname is ignored

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:20:32AM +0200, root wrote:
> after a fresh install of exim4 on debian stretch, and moving our old
> configuration, I found out that mail to unqualified adresses is sent
> to user@`hostname -f` instead of user@`cat /etc/mailname`. Just as if
> MAIN_PRIMARY_HOSTNAME_AS_QUALIFY_DOMAIN was set.

How are you sending this mail? qualify_domain and qualify_recipient only
apply to locally generated messages and NOT to messages received from a
mail client via SMTP.

You might want to run exim with a debug option and look for the
qualification code in the debug output.

Greetings
Marc

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