On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Ben Loyall wrote:
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> 1998-04-20 20:29:22 rejected HELO from [209.96.179.164]: syntactically
> invalid argument(s): ppp:tbarstow
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I made 1.90 accept underscores in HELO arguments because Microsoft puts
them there. (There's an option to be more strict.) I didn't provide
anything for allowing through other characters.
> a) Pegasus has a command line switch that will let you force a valid
> hostname
One wonders why the default is to be invalid. Sigh.
> 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.
You could patch the code, around line 290 of smtp_in.c.
Another Sigh. I suppose I'd better consider putting in an option to
allow through any old junk.
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