Re: [Exim] What does this error mean?

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Author: Paul Wilson
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To: Frank DeChellis
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] What does this error mean?
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Frank DeChellis wrote:

> We're running Exim 4.0
>
> We have a few client who are unable to email us and from one we get this
> error message in our mainlog for exim
>
> 2002-09-27 16:14:42 rejected HELO from ral-exch.fminet.com [208.17.36.8]:
> syntactically invalid argument(s): ral_exch.fminet.com
>
> Can anybody tell me what a "syntactically invalid argument" is?


Underscores are not allowed in hostnames therefore "ral_exch.fminet.com"
is an invalid argument to the HELO/EHLO command.

Paul