hostname variable in attachment replacement

[David Lee]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Julian Field wrote:

> On 07/08/2009 15:23, David Lee wrote:
>> [...]
>> 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.

Sure.  (Interpret my phrase "MS start-up code" as including the init.d 
script.)

Might an "export HOSTNAME" there help?


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