Re: [Exim] Received: header not RFC2821 compliant?

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Author: Jochen Erwied
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To: Dean Brooks
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Received: header not RFC2821 compliant?
Thursday, July 04, 2002, 5:22:32 PM, you wrote:

>     The Received header is not being created properly by your MTA.  From
>     RFC2821:


>     So, the line is *supposed* to look something like this:


>        > Received:  from your-w92p4bhlzg ([12.246.204.28])

                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>        > by iglou.com with smtp (Exim 4.05) id 17PrkX-0003Wo-00;
>        > Wed, 03 Jul 2002 17:33:21 -0400


The Received-Header looks quite ok. What may be wrong is the marked
line - this is not a FQDN, but an unqualified host, which, according
to RFC 2821 MUST NOT appear in a SMTP-header.

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