On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Does Exim (1.82 in particular) not use the same name for the HELO
> greeting when acting as a client as it gives in the 220 greeting when
> acting as a server? I'm trying to debug a connection to my mailer
> that's failing because the remote Exim host is giving an unqualified
> name (or at least one with an invalid domain) when it sends the HELO to
> me, but when I connect to it the name it gives in the 220 is correct.
The name in the 220 is whatever is in smtp_banner. The contents of the
HELO it sends out is primary_hostname. So yes, they could be configured
to be different.
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