Re: [Exim] Question about reject logs...

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Author: Nico Erfurth
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To: Cory Daehn
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Question about reject logs...
Cory Daehn wrote:
> I'm not sure what to make of this info in my reject log... Although I'm these
> are probably Spam, why are they being rejected?
>
> 2003-04-14 03:49:26 rejected HELO from [211.238.93.109]: syntactically invalid
> a
> rgument(s): mail_server.cashspeed.co.kr

                   ^


The _ is not allowed in hostnames, but MS Exchange replaces whitespace
with _ in hostnames, when it sends HELO.

The 'solution' is to set
helo_allow_chars = _
in your exim config, if you want to receive mails from such broken
mailers. Btw, AFAIK, it's impossible/not easy to change the hostname on
a windows-server, so don't expect the sending side to fix it ;)

Nico