Re: [Exim] Is there a switch for these broken mailers?

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:40:40PM -0600, Elliot Finley wrote:
> I've been getting a lot of this type of message in my reject log:
> rejected EHLO from [207.13.203.195]: syntactically invalid argument(s):
> mkt_mail1.harborfreight.com
> I know it's because of the underscore in the host name, and I know that it
> is in fact syntactically invalid, but management wants to get mail from some
> of these (not this particular one) malformed hostnames.
>
> So the question is - is there a switch to allow Exim to accept mail from
> these?

Yes, the switch is "Phone up the company, and ask them to fix their MTA,
explaining why people are rejecting mail from them, due to their not
being RFC compliant.

And then read about helo_accpet_chars