Setting hostdomain

[Christian Kivalo]

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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  Christian Kivalo