Pkg exim4 users - Jun 2005 - configureing exim4 - setting hostname

Hello,

 

I have read through everything I can find and can''t seem to find any
documentation describing my problem.

 

I am trying to setup a mailman mailing list using exim4 as my MTA.  I
recently installed Debian Sarge, and used apt to install mailman and
exim4.

 

Everything seems to be working except for outgoing mail.

 

When I check the logs I see:

 

Jun 13 13:55:53 2005 (7022) delivery to someone@somewhere.tld failed
with code -1: (111, ''Connection refused'')

 

Upon further inspection, I noticed that if I telnet to port 25 I see the
following:

 

220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Exim 4.50 Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:34:45
-0500

 

My guess is that the connection is being refused because my server is
not reporting a valid host.domain (instead it is reporting
localhost.localdomain)

 

So down to the real question:  Where do I set the hostname and domain
for exim4?  I am using single file method for exim configure. 

 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

-Greg

On 2005-06-13 Greg Post <gpost@pierwisconsin.org> wrote:
[...]
> Everything seems to be working except for outgoing mail.
> When I check the logs I see:
> Jun 13 13:55:53 2005 (7022) delivery to someone@somewhere.tld failed
> with code -1: (111, ''Connection refused'')
> Upon further inspection, I noticed that if I telnet to port 25 I see the
> following:
> 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Exim 4.50 Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:34:45
> -0500
> My guess is that the connection is being refused because my server is
> not reporting a valid host.domain (instead it is reporting
> localhost.localdomain)
Hello,
I don''t think so. The remote host is rejecting the connection before
exim has identified itself in ehlo.

You can verify this with
swaks -s the.remote.server.that.failed -f
''gpost@pierwisconsin.org'' \
   -t postmaster -q rcpt
> So down to the real question:  Where do I set the hostname and domain
> for exim4?  I am using single file method for exim configure. 
Give your host a real name instead of "localhost" (in /etc/hostname).
                 cu andreas
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