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MAILNAME(5)						    Linux System Administration 					       MAILNAME(5)

NAME
       mailname - the visible mail name of the system

DESCRIPTION
       The  file  /etc/mailname is a plain ASCII configuration file, which on a Debian system contains the visible mail name of the system.  It is
       used by many different programs, usually programs that wish to send or relay mail, and need to know the name of the system.

       The file contains only one line describing the fully qualified domain name that the program wishing to get the mail name should	use  (that
       is, everything after the @).

SEE ALSO
       mailaddr(7), sendmail(8)

Debian GNU/Linux						    2002-03-29							       MAILNAME(5)