Question : Exim 4 not including domain/hostname in from field when sending

Hi,

I have upgraded my server hardware and reinstalled the operating system (Ubuntu).  I restored the /etc/exim4 and /etc/mail dirs from the previous version.  Outgoing emails from Exim now do not have a domain.  Other mail servers are bouncing back the messages with a message including:

** [email protected] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM: SIZE=167335: host mserv1.leeds.ac.uk [129.11.76.151]: 553 5.1.3 ... Hostname required

The mainlog shows the mail going out OK:

2008-01-14 11:12:05 1JENEb-0004P0-6o SA: Action: Not running SA because SAEximRunCond expanded to false (Message-Id: 1JENEb-0004P0-6o). From (host=NULL [127.0.0.1]) for [email protected]
2008-01-14 11:12:05 1JENEb-0004P0-6o <= [email protected] H=(www.myserver.abc) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=907 id=59476.1.2.3.4.1200309125.squirrel@www.myserver.abc

I have tried sending email from alpine, squirrelmail and a simple telnet test with the same results.

Does anyone have any ideas where in the 60-odd configuration files it may be looking for the domain.

Thanks,
Tim

Answer : Exim 4 not including domain/hostname in from field when sending

Thanks PeturIngiEgilsson but that HowTo is for an earlier version of Exim.  The latest version 4.x does not have eximconfig.  To do the same for exim4, use this command:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

I moved the /etc/exim4 dir to backup and then purged and re-installed in exim4 packages.  Then ran the reconfigure command.  I could then send and received perfectly.

I then had a problem getting spamassassin to work with through sa-exim but found that I had to add

conf.d/main/15_sa-exim_plugin_path

to the configuration and restart.

It all works fine now.  Thanks for your help.

Tim