[Pkg-exim4-users] dc_minimaldns not working?

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:35:42PM +0200, Lothar Ketterer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 02:02:27PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I think that this is most easily solved to have update-exim4.conf
> > print a warning if dc_minimaldns is set and hostname --fqdn does
> > return no dots. It is then the reponsibility of the local admin to
> > give the system an FQDN that exim can work with.
> > 
> > Any comments?
> 
> To me (as a normal user without too much knowledge), it would be helpful
> if there was a hint how to achieve a FQDN printed along with this
> warning.

I am very reluctant to give a "Unix administration course" in a
warning printed by an arbitrary tool. This usually leads to people not
reading the text because it's longer than two lines.

The correct answer would of course be "have an FQDN in the 127.0.1.1
line in /etc/hosts" for the majority of Debian systems.

Greetings
Marc

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