Re: [Exim] Re: incorrect host reported in HELO

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Author: dman
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: incorrect host reported in HELO
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:51:39PM +0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
| +++ 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?


No

| What's the value returned by uname -n on your machine?


$ uname -n
dman

$

-D

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