Autor: Suresh Ramasubramanian Data: A: aooi58 CC: 'Exim Users Mailing List' Assumpte: Re: Now well off-topic - was Re: [Exim] how to configure HELO/EHLO
and DNS for multi-homed hosts
Simon Bell wrote:
> I run a small mail server for myself and a few friends off my dsl, which
> does have a static IP address. I have no huge knowledge of dns or rfc's
> and at present my helo is identifying itself as mail.mydomain.com. if
> someone were to resolve that, it would give my ip address, and if they
> were to do it again, they would get my dsl address, so should i be
> sending helo/ehlo as mail.mydomain.com or as my.dsl.address.com ?
Anything you like - ideally as long as the HELO is
1. an fqdn
2. resolvable on the 'net
I'm sure Greg Woods will tell you something different.
