On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 16:53:44 +0100 (CET) Asbjørn Høiland Aarrestad <asbjorn@???> wrote:
>
> > In practice, 99% of the time this error is provoked by an illegal
> > underscore in a domain name.
>
>
> I've posted the original log in another, new, message, and the hostname
> is
> "lyse_msg01.lyse.no". is this not a legal hostname? Why is the underscore
> "illegal", and how to fix it?
the RFCs say it isn't legal, and exim is expecting a FQDN that is
conformant with the RFCs.
you have two choices:
1) beat on the remote side to fix their name
2) find the exim option to permit _ in HELO/EHLO, it's in the manual.
richard
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