On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Philip Hazel wrote:
Thanks for the quick response.
> On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> > Logged in as user evan, logged into bigbird.telly.org and testing exim.
> > In my exim config I have "qualify_domain" set to "telly.org" and
> > "primary_hostname" set up as "gate.telly.org" since that's my Internet
> > interface; `hostname` reports "bigbird", the Ethernet interface.
>
> primary_hostname is supposed to be the name of the host you are running
> on. Therefore it should be bigbird.telly.org. This is used when Exim
> sends out mail, in the HELO command, and some hosts check this.
I'd like to be able to do this but I'm finding that some mailers
don't like it (smail, especially).
When I send mail the SMTP connection is made from my PPP-to-the-Internet
interface, which reverse-DNSs to "gate" (this is under the control of my
ISP and I can't change that easily). Some MTAs (the new Smail, for
instance) do a reverse lookup on the connection and see that it's "gate",
not "bigbird" -- and fails the mail if HELO says "bigbird".
If there's a better way to do this than changing primary_hostname, I'd
really love to hear it. To this day, I can't send mail directly to Greg
using smail; it doesn't allow me to change primary_hostname as I need, so
there's always a mismatch between "gate" and "bigbird".
Thanks.
- Evan
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