[Exim] Re: incorrect host reported in HELO

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Autor: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: exim-users
Betreff: [Exim] Re: incorrect host reported in HELO
+++ dman [exim-users] <04/01/02 00:07 -0500>:
> 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'.


So, is your machine calling itself localhost, or localhost.localdomain?
What's the value returned by uname -n on your machine?

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Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin