Okay, this is weird.
I've been getting a flood of calls from our customer service department,
it seems exim is giving out the following error like candy:
501 syntactially invaled HELO argument(s)
And a sprinkling of the same for EHLO. I don't see any problems, I can
telnet directly to the mail port and say 'HELO alskfalkj' and it doesn't
care. The only time I get the error is if I do a HELO with no host name.
Here's the result of a 'grep HELO exim-reject.log':
1997-12-16 14:32:33 rejected HELO: syntactically invalid argument(s): web_1.pjcc.com
1997-12-16 14:35:01 rejected HELO: syntactically invalid argument(s): vancouver_nt2.glenvan.glenayre.com
1997-12-16 14:39:50 rejected HELO: syntactically invalid argument(s): ITAC_Toronto.itac.ca
1997-12-16 14:40:12 rejected HELO: syntactically invalid argument(s): PC_andyp.direct.ca
1997-12-16 14:40:23 rejected HELO: syntactically invalid argument(s): philip_nt
1997-12-16 14:41:25 rejected HELO: syntactically invalid argument(s): PC_andyp.direct.ca
1997-12-16 14:46:28 rejected HELO: syntactically invalid argument(s): web_1.pjcc.com
1997-12-16 14:46:34 rejected HELO: syntactically invalid argument(s): web_1.pjcc.com
1997-12-16 14:55:36 rejected EHLO: syntactically invalid argument(s): wlt_iii.wltsoftware.com
1997-12-16 14:55:38 rejected HELO: syntactically invalid argument(s): wlt_iii.wltsoftware.com
Now granted, all these host names either don't exist or return screwy errors
when I try to look them up, but I thought exim didn't really care what you
put after the HELO? Especially since I have host_lookup_nets = "0.0.0.0/0"
in my configuration file and the 250 HELO reply simply reverses your IP.
Skye
PS: Exim is cool, I recommend it to everyone.
PPS: I second the motion Philip, I would like to ask my company to make a
donation to your favorite charity on your behalf!
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