Re: [Exim] EHLO advertising

Hi,

Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@???> wrote on 20
Nov 2002 12:48:20

> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:26, Michael Jakscht wrote:
> > 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.


Okay, thans for this answer, but why would this setting reject more mails
than less???
Would be great if you could explain that... ;-)

Michael