[ On Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 14:45:14 (+0900), Randy Bush wrote: ]
> Subject: [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
Hmmm... there seem to be two problems here.
1. your authenticator is broken somehow.
As I'm sure you know "localhost" _IS_ a fully qualified domain name:
$ host -v -A localhost
Query about localhost for record types A
Hostname localhost maps to address 127.0.0.1
Found 1 address for localhost
Checking localhost address 127.0.0.1
$ host -v -A 127.0.0.1
Query about 127.0.0.1 for record types PTR
Address 127.0.0.1 maps to hostname localhost
Found 0 hostname for 127.0.0.1
Checking localhost address 127.0.0.1
Or maybe it's your local DNS that's not quite implementing localhost
properly?
2. why are you applying the FQDN ACL to connections from local networks,
and in particular to those from 127/8?
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