hostname variable in attachment replacement

[Julian Field]

On 07/08/2009 15:23, David Lee wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Randal, Phil wrote:
>
>> Julian Field wrote:
>>> "$HOSTNAME" shouldn't work in the reports, only in MailScanner.conf.
>>> But "$hostname" should work in the reports.
>>>
>>> Jules
>>
>> But it doesn't seem to.
>>
>> It is a low priority for me at the moment, and my test box is a VM at
>> home, so it will take me a while to figure out what's going on.
>> Cheers,
>> Phil
>
> Hmmm... I think there are many of us here on this list who are 
> expecting the variable to have been automatically set prior to the 
> point of use with a reasonable default (e.g. from "uname -n" or 
> "/bin/hostname" or similar) but who are finding it empty/unset.  
> (There may well be others here, for whom a default is being set.)
>
> The human expectation and the computer-code reality don't marry up; 
> something somewhere (either human or machine) is going astray.
>
> Wouldn't it help if the MS start up code could have something like:
>    if not set/inherited ... then set to something '/bin/hostname'-ish.
I could put it in the init.d script I guess. That would be the right 
place for it. MailScanner just automatically looks up $ENV{FOOBAR} when 
it sees $FOOBAR or ${FOOBAR} in the MailScanner.conf file, it doesn't 
know about the hostname as a special case at all, and I would like to 
keep it that way.

Jules

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