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Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

From Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome
Date 2020-02-21 13:20 +0100
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:00 Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:

> Hi tom,
>
...

> > Does anyone have strong reasons to use one over another, or any other
>
> choice?
>
...

> Depends on the purpose of the name(s).

...

Thanks, Jonas, that makes good sense. Based on that I should use "mail" and
maybe "mail2" for my backup mail server.

One of the reasons I asked was I know Gmail used to use something like "
smtp.gmail.com" for its smtp server and thought that might be popular among
sysadmins with such servers.

-Tom

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Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-02-21 12:20 +0100
  Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-02-21 12:40 +0100
    Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-02-21 13:10 +0100
      Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-02-21 13:30 +0100
        Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-02-21 13:50 +0100
          Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-02-21 14:50 +0100
    Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-02-21 15:40 +0100
      Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-02-21 15:50 +0100
        Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-02-21 18:10 +0100
          Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-02-21 23:40 +0100
  Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2020-02-21 13:10 +0100
    Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-02-21 13:20 +0100
      Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2020-02-21 13:50 +0100
  Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk> - 2020-02-21 13:20 +0100
    Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-02-21 13:30 +0100
  Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-02-21 16:40 +0100
    Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-02-21 18:30 +0100
      Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-02-21 19:10 +0100
        Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-02-21 19:50 +0100
          Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-02-21 20:30 +0100
          Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-02-21 20:30 +0100
  Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2020-02-21 23:50 +0100

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