Re: [Exim] EHLO advertising

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: Michael Jakscht
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] EHLO advertising
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:26, Michael Jakscht wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to tell Exim 3.36 to advertise himself in an EHLO or HELO
> command with the same name of the DNS-MX-lookup ?
> We have the following situation:
>
> DNS-MX entry: mail.vit.de
> Host-Name e-Mail-Gateway: rzvemgw.vit.de
>
> When exim tries to deliver mails to a mailserver which has an option like
> "helo_verify" switched on, it naturally fails because of these two
> different names.


Basically this is your primary_hostname setting.

However the argument to a HELO is the name of the *host* you are
connecting from, not anything to do with MX values. Putting an MX name
in there is likely to cause more rejections rather than less.

    Nigel.
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