On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 23:07, dman wrote:
>
> I'm trying to send a message to someone who uses hotmail. I get the
> following in my logs :
>
> 2002-01-04 00:00:02 16MEJn-0000Wf-00 Remote host mx01.hotmail.com
> [64.4.55.71] closed connection after HELO localhost
>
> (for all of the MX hosts exim tries). I decided to test it with
> telnet, and "EHLO dman.ddts.net" is accepted, but neither "EHLO
> localhost" nor "HELO localhost" is accepted. I've looked at my
> config, but I don't see why exim is reporting itself as 'localhost'.
>
> The only line in exim.conf that mentions localhost is
> local_domains = <, dman.ddts.net , localhost
>
> I reversed the original order thinking that perhaps exim reports
> itself as the first one. I also tried it without the 'localhost'
> entry.
>
> How do I tell exim what to report itself as in the EHLO/HELO greeting?
First thing that comes to mind:
1) The name of your host is localhost
and
2) You don't have primary_hostname set in exim.conf.
If you change one of those to dman.ddts.net my bet is that everything
will work fine (setting primary_hostname is quite a bit easier, though).
Phil
