Pkg exim4 users - May 2007 - "relay not permitted" for host specified in /etc/mailname

Debian, exim 4.50, trivial smarthost config.  When /etc/mailname
is updated, the update-exim4.conf is run and exim4 restarted,
I still got "relay not permitted" when exim4 would not receive
mail to itself!

Is there some reason this is not the behavior by default?  I figured 
out that I had to 
dc_other_hostnames=''DEBCONFvisiblenameDEBCONF:...''
but that seemd a tad wierd to me...and I swear that this used to
work before...

(my /etc/mailname is usually something like
adsl-76-223-44-207.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net... I use this for "throw
away"
"give us your email address" addresses that will be short-lived.

--Ken

Ken R. Dye <dye1146 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Debian, exim 4.50, trivial smarthost config.  When /etc/mailname
> is updated, the update-exim4.conf is run and exim4 restarted,
> I still got "relay not permitted" when exim4 would not receive
> mail to itself!
> Is there some reason this is not the behavior by default?  I figured 
> out that I had to 
dc_other_hostnames=''DEBCONFvisiblenameDEBCONF:...''
> but that seemd a tad wierd to me...and I swear that this used to
> work before...
[...]

It did, until 4.50-5.
Quote /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz:

exim4 (4.50-5) unstable; urgency=low

    mailname, the local name of the system used to qualify senders and
    recipients is no longer a local domain by default. Having local
    delivery for that host name used to break satellite and smarthost
    setups where no local delivery was expected.
    /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf is modified automatically on
    upgrade from the appropriate earlier versions, so if you don''t do
any
    funky things with /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf, you should be fine.

 -- Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de>  Sat,  2 Apr 2005
20:31:27 +0200

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