Re: [Exim] strange reject log

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Asbjørn Høiland Aarrestad
CC: exim users
Subject: Re: [Exim] strange reject log
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Asbjørn Høiland Aarrestad wrote:

> Got this strange message in my rejectlog
>
> 2003-02-18 15:23:45 rejected HELO from [nnn.nn.nnn.nnn]: syntactically
> invalid argument(s): some.domain.com


> I have replaces the IP and the domain name with something else...


With respect, how do you expect anybody to give you an answer? You get
an error that says there is a syntax error, and you then remove what was
really there and replace it with "some.domain.com" which is, of course,
perfectly valid syntactically. So how can we tell you what the syntax
problem was if you don't tell us what was causing the objection?

In practice, 99% of the time this error is provoked by an illegal
underscore in a domain name.

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