msgidhost-Variable in inn.conf

[Russ Allbery]

Sorry about the delay in responding.

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at logic.univie.ac.at> writes:

> How are the chances that
> http://www.qad.org/projects/diff_msgidhost-inn2.2.patch gets included
> into the official inn-source? Its purpose is this:

> | Even Leafsites need their own FQDN to generate their Message-IDs
> | from. Stripping your MID before posting your articles is a bad idea
> | as it may yield in dupes and worse.  Unfortunately your generic
> | out-of-the-box INN generates his Message-ID by calling getFQDN()
> | which - in turn - returns something strange like
> | localhost.localdomain on most leafsites.  After applying this patch,
> | adding a line
> | 
> | 	     msgidhost:      /yourFQDNhere/
> | 
> | to your inn.conf solves this problem by adding your FQDN as the
> | host-part instead.

> There was a disscussion on this mailinglist about it (Thread:
> http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/inn-workers/1999/09/msg00183.html).

If I'm reading the code right here, I *think* that setting domain in
readers.conf with the current code will do what you expect and want.  Is
that enough, or is the above patch still needed?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>