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INN (InterNetNews) Usenet server
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Keep a user-supplied domain parameter in inn.conf or readers.conf #243

Closed Julien-Elie closed 1 year ago

Julien-Elie commented 1 year ago

The domain parameter in inn.conf currently has a weird behaviour; it may not always be used, depending on a few rules that need being reviewed. An expicitly-set configuration option should override whatever is discovered while probing around on the system.

We should:

Julien-Elie commented 1 year ago

Implemented in INN 2.7.1 except for the second point (using domain from inn.conf which is not backwards-compatible) postponed for the next major release. This will be tracked in #244.

As for the newsmaster e-mail, let's document existing fromhost parameter which is exactly supposed to configure the domain part of e-mail addresses.