[patch] Use /etc/mailname if available

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 03:39 -0500, James Blackwell wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:01:30AM -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a way to check if socket.gethostname() returns something
> > reasonable? I know I've never heard of /etc/mailname before. I couldn't
> > find it in man pages, though I believe I understand how it should work.
> 
> /etc/mailname is common on Debian and Ubuntu systems at least. I think I
> may have seen it on slackware systems as well.

Interestingly though, exim ignores it (or at least my exim4 config,
which is stock and not tweaked) does, as /etc/mailname says
'localhost.localdomain', which is clearly wrong.

Rob

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