/etc/mailname (or lack thereof)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:38:16AM +0100, Jaime wrote:

> Just thought I'd mention that my file-system (after a successful
> install) does not contain a(n) /etc/mailname (emacs pointed it out to me
> when I started it up). My debian-sid box does, however...

The message from emacs is harmless; the system doesn't have a mailname until
you explicitly configure postfix (sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix), since this
can't be automatically determined.

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 - mdz