On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Paul Sheer wrote:
>
> Exim forces a lookup if the domain in the HELO is a local domain.
> (see spec.txt) This causes deliveries to fail from our
> dialup machines under the domain of the host, since our ISP does
> not support reverse lookups on the dynamic addresses assigned to
> dialup machines (these are 192.168.*.* addresses).
Why don't your dial-up machines obey RFC 821 and give a valid argument
in HELO? (i.e. their own name or their IP address)
I'm afraid your suggested patch seems far too special-purpose to me.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
