On 2016-09-25 20:34, Arie Peterson wrote:

Hi all,

Preparing for a replication setup, I read (at the bottom of http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Replication) that dovecot --hostdomain should give a different output on the two servers. This is not the case for me: both give "localhost". I'm trying to change my configuration to set the hostdomain to another value, but I can't find how to do this.

I tried:

• setting the environment variable DOVECOT_HOSTDOMAIN=mydomain in /etc/default/dovecot (which is read by the init script);

• adding the line import_environment = TZ DOVECOT_HOSTDOMAIN=mydomain to dovecot.conf;

• the combination of both of the above.

However, after restarting dovecot none of these changes seem to have any effect: dovecot --hostdomain still returns "localhost".

whats the output of 'hostname -f'

whats in your /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts?

there was a thead a few weeks ago on how to have dovecot use a different hostname than the system hostname see http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2016-August/105284.html

This is with dovecot version 2.2.13.

How should one change this setting?

Thanks,

Arie

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