GE problems

[Tom H]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:52 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 10/31/2012 02:34 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> What the heck is /etc/mailname?  Never heard of nor seen it.
>
> $ locate mailname
> /etc/mailname
> /usr/share/man/man5/mailname.5.gz
>
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man5/mailname.5.html
>
> foo at bar $ cat /etc/mailname
> should result in:
> bar

"/etc/mailname" is a Debianism for setting the box/domain from which
an email originates when you run "dpkg-reconfigure <mta>" that's
created by one of the postfix (for example) installation scripts
(IIRC, from "hostname -f").