On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:12:45PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote:
| 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
no
| 2) You don't have primary_hostname set in exim.conf.
bingo!
Thanks!
-D
--
Pride goes before destruction,
a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18
