On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, John Horne wrote:
> tell, because they have 1 IP address each but 2 reverse lookup names each.
> Exim seems to check the first name it receives but not the second.
> E.g. (mailhub) mary.csd.plymouth.ac.uk => 141.163.66.134
> 141.163.66.134 => mary.csd.plymouth.ac.uk
> => mail.plymouth.ac.uk
It seems that I overlooked host alias names when coding helo_verify.
They are recognized elsewhere in Exim, for example, when checking host
lists. Noted for sorting out.
However, Exim is supposed to try a forward lookup of the HELO name if it
can't match the reverse looked up name. I wonder why that didn't work?
(That is, it should have looked up mail.plymouth.ac.uk and compared IP
addresses.)
Could you try "exim -d -bh 141.163.66.134" and feed it
"helo mail.plymouth.ac.uk" please, and let me see the result?
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