On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Matt Saunders wrote:
> On Sep 13, Andrew Boothman wrote:
> > Philip Hazel wrote:
> >
> > >On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Andrew Boothman wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>When I checked out qmail, it had an option to alter the hostname used in
> > >>the HELO command, but I couldn't find one for Exim?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >primary_hostname
> > >
> > Thanks Philip, I suspected that was the case.
>
> What'd be _really_ handy for those of us who run Exim on laptops which
> are lugged around and plugged into a variety of different networks
> would be a mechanism whereby Exim reverse-resolves the IP address
> it's sending mail out on and uses that in HELO.
If you're not on a fixed IP address, you shouldn't be functioning as a
'server' anyway. You should be using a server that is on a fixed IP
address as a relay host.
> I think Sendmail does that, something I've always considered to be a
> bit evil, but I can see the potential benefits in it now!
>
>
> Matt.
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