[Exim] helo filter says goodbye to pine

i installed the fqdn acl for helo/ehlo. now, local pine users
can't send mail. they get

    [Error sending: SMTP hello failure: 421 SMTP connection went away!]

looking at exim log, i see

    2003-08-28 05:20:13 U=boat rejected EHLO or HELO localhost: \
            HELO/EHLO must contain an FQDN

which confirms my suspicion

    exim -bh 127.0.0.1

lets me

    HELO FROB

so what the heck else should i be doing?

randy