Re: [Exim] What does this error mean?

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Author: Torsten Mueller
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To: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [Exim] What does this error mean?
helo_allow_chars = _
allows the underscore in the HELO greeting (which helps to accept
messages
from misconfigured Exchange servers).

Torsten

Frank DeChellis schrieb:
>
> Does anybody know what this command is??        The problem only started when we
> upgraded to 4.0

>
> -----Original Message-----
> To: exim-users@???
> Cc: frankd@???
> Subject: Re: [Exim] What does this error mean?
>
> Exim can be made to accept syntactically invalid hostnames with one of the
> global settings (the exact one escapes me at the moment but it is simple to
> find in the documentation). However, I've had pretty good luck with
> contacting the owners of the improperly named host and explaining that
> underscores are not allowed. For some reason this particular naming flaw
> seems to plague administrators of exchange servers.
>
> -David
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Wilson" <prw@???>
> To: "Frank DeChellis" <frankd@???>
> Cc: <exim-users@???>
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 4:38 PM
> 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
> >
> >
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