[Pkg-exim4-users] Some problems

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:55:30PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> On Monday 16 October 2006 13:48, Marc Haber took the opportunity to say:
> > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:14:14PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> > > Set primary_hostname to a fully-qualified hostname (e.g.
> > > host.example.com).
> >
> > That's bad advice, curing the symptom but not the cause. See
> > http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ#head-7e80799021cecef6ccfb5f363c5ba81
> >86345b902
> 
> Oh. I never thought or noticed that setting primary_hostname would cause such 
> big trouble (provided it's set to something sensible). Do you have any 
> further pointers?

Setting primary_hostname is making exim behave. It doesn't solve the
problem of the local host being misconfigured which causes trouble in
other software as well.

It is better to fix the misconfiguration of the _system_ than tweaking
_one_ app to work around that _system_ misconfiguration.

Greetings
Marc


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