[Pkg-exim4-users] [SOLVED] Re: exim4 (lenny) MAIN_ALLOW_DOMAIN_LITERALS

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:55:05AM +0200, Holger Wirtz wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:17:57AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:03:51AM +0200, Holger Wirtz wrote:
> > > one problem solved annother occurs :-( Now I get mail towards my system
> > > but I cannot send mail from this system (to the smarthost) because the
> > > From:-line is wrecked:
> > > 
> > > 2007-07-19 08:59:23 1IBPyt-00076T-3X <= smsd@@ U=smsd P=local S=426 id=20070719065923.GA27289 at aldebaran
> > 
> > Is your local hostname configured correctly?
> 
> Yes:
> 
> $ hostname --fqdn
> aldebaran.dfn.de

and /etc/hosts?

> seeking password data for user "mail": cache not available
> getpwnam() succeeded uid=8 gid=8
> user name "root" extracted from gecos field "root"
> originator: uid=0 gid=0 login=root name=root
> sender address = root@@

This is wrong. Exim figures out your local hostname as "@".

What does uname -n say?

Greetins
Marc

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