Why does dma do local mail delivery if you specify a MAILNAME?

[BWWIT]

If in the config-file you:
MAILNAME /etc/mailname

Content of /etc/mailname:
mydomain.com

And you send mail e.g.:
echo "Hello World" | mail -s "Test-mail" info@mydomain.com

It seems dma will only perform local mail delivery i.e. write the mail to the users mailbox e.g. /var/mail/itadmin
(and if itadmin doesn't exist as local linux user you'll see errors in the log the a mailbox for the user cannot be created).

What's the logic behind this?

[corecode]

mailname is the local hostname override. you want smarthost.

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