>
> I have just run into a potentialy painful problem and am hoping I can find
> a solution here. I gave a quick search through the last 2 month's
> archives (which have been most helpful in the past) but came up dry.
>
> We just upgraded our mail server from Exim 1.6x on Unixware to 1.82 then
> 1.90 on FreeBSD. Since this upgrade we have been having problems with
> Pegasus mailers on Win95.
>
> In short, due to win95 (in some circumstances) building it's hostname from
> the username in the dialup configs, we have been seeing alot of:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1998-04-20 20:29:22 rejected HELO from [209.96.179.164]: syntactically
> invalid argument(s): ppp:tbarstow
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And of course, Pegasus barfs and won't send the mail.
>
> For legacy reasons, we have to have dialup users place the ppp: in front
> of the username. It would appear the colon is the issue.
>
> We have found at least 2 fixes:
>
> a) Pegasus has a command line switch that will let you force a valid
> hostname
> b) Installing MS networking on the box and specifying a valid hostname
> there
Hmmm, philosophically, I'd say you should make your clients use better
software. The world shouldn't have to bend to accomodate brain-dead
software.
>
> Regretably, these are 1:1 fixes, and since we have 3300 customers
> (smallish ISP), the above are rather techdesk intensive fixes.
Is it? Why not be proactive and email your clients telling them the
fixes? Certainly you'd still have some customers calling and going
'huh?' but I'm sure it wouldn't be 3300.
>
> I'm hoping there is a way to disable this syntax check for a netlist as
> that is much less painful than 3300 phone calls.
I think there is, but I can't recall what directive it might be -
maybe headers_check_syntax?
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Ben Loyall
> Postmaster & more
> widomaker.com
>
>
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