[2322] in athena10
/etc/mailname
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Sat Apr 18 03:12:46 2009
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:12:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@mit.edu
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0904180310440.7163@tyger.mit.edu>
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Quoting the man page:
NAME
mailname - the visible mail name of the system
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/mailname is a plain ASCII configuration file,
which on a Debian system contains the visible mail name of the
system. It is used by many different programs, usually pro=E2=
=80=90
grams that wish to send or relay mail, and need to know the
name of the system.
The file contains only one line describing the fully qualified
domain name that the program wishing to get the mail name
should use (that is, everything after the @).
Seems to me that at least on -cluster, and potentially on -login, we=20
should be setting this to mit.edu. This means that programs will default=20
to writing my e-mail address as "geofft@mit.edu" instead of=20
"geofft@w20-575-1.mit.edu".
--=20
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
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