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

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Author: dman
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: incorrect host reported in HELO
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:57:12PM -0500, Derek Broughton wrote:
| Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

|
| >+++ dman [exim-users] <04/01/02 11:42 -0500>:
| >
| >>On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:12:45PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote:
| >>| 2) You don't have primary_hostname set in exim.conf.
| >>
| >>bingo!
| >>
| >
| >That'd force it to use what you set it as - but if not, the value from
| >uname will be used.
| >
| >So am still stumped how you are EHLOing as localhost.

|
| That can't be quite right. On my system, i don't have primary_hostname
| set, and:

|
| derek@casio:~$ uname -n
| casio
| derek@casio:~$ telnet localhost 25
| Trying 127.0.0.1...
| Connected to casio.othello.domain.
| Escape character is '^]'.
| 220 casio.othello.domain ESMTP Exim 3.32 #1 Fri, 04 Jan 2002 13:49:26 -0500

|
| However, /etc/hosts contains:

|
|    127.0.0.1       casio.othello.domain localhost  casio

|
| specifically because I used to list localhost first, and SMTP responded
| with localhost (and I hadn't noted the existence of $primary_hostname).


Good point here. In my /etc/hosts I too had localhost listed first
(and no domain given for the real name). Now I have put the
fully-qualified name first. We'll see what happens next time :-).

(still, though, I'd like to see at least one of exim's SMTP sessions
so I can see it for myself)

-D

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