Anyway to change my mailserver name?

[sexy_guy]

I realize my hostname is used as my mailserver name during all mail transaction; Received: from srv01.fastservers.com ([207.xx.xxx.xxx]) however i was wondering if there was a way to define a different mailserver name without having to actually change my hostname. Our resellers are complaining that all msgs display our domainname. This wouldnt be such problem however that would mean our security certificate would need to be repurchased if i changed my hostname just to display a different server name.

[Juanra]

I don't know if it will break your Exim [more] but you can try this:

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/d...11.html#SEC302

[dgbaker]

You can also set primary_hostname to nothing in exim.conf

We've been playing with it and have not had any glaring issues.

Mail is still going in and out.

The header would now look like

Return-path: <user@domain.com>
Envelope-to: user@domain.com
Delivery-date: Sun, 11 May 2003 15:29:56 -0400
Received: from toronto-hse-ppp3678374.sympatico.ca ([65.95.xxx.xxx] helo=user)
by with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) -Notice no primary hostname
id 19EwWC-00043j-00
for user@domain.com; Sun, 11 May 2003 15:29:56 -0400
From: "User Name" <user@domain.com>

[sqsisa]

You can use more than 1 MX record to point to the same A record. Several domains get shot to the same mail server.

[sexy_guy]

Originally posted by dgbaker
You can also set primary_hostname to nothing in exim.conf

We've been playing with it and have not had any glaring issues.

Mail is still going in and out.

The header would now look like

Return-path: <user@domain.com>
Envelope-to: user@domain.com
Delivery-date: Sun, 11 May 2003 15:29:56 -0400
Received: from toronto-hse-ppp3678374.sympatico.ca ([65.95.xxx.xxx] helo=user)
by with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) -Notice no primary hostname
id 19EwWC-00043j-00
for user@domain.com; Sun, 11 May 2003 15:29:56 -0400
From: "User Name" <user@domain.com>

If you add primary_host = BLANK it works for incoming msgs however if you send a msg from the server, the server still reports the servers hostname as being received from when the receipient gets the msg. Thats my problem. Also, i look at the log i see this;

2003-05-12 00:15:27 19F7Wx-000889-00 <= powerful@ U=powerful P=local S=2650

Notice there is no TLD for powerful@? Eeek! So by changing primary_host to blank the server doesnt know what the tld is?

[dgbaker]

Yeah, and we found a couple of domains rejecting mail because that was left blank.

[howard]

you could change the reverse dns on ip to something more bland & also set the primary_hostname to match so it wouldn't be immediately obvious when its received by the recipent mail servers (based on the assumption that the srv01 stuff was for the purposes of the post and the not the real name)