On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:38:12PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > 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?
>
> it turns out pine sends without a host at all. so you have to
>
> accept hosts = :
This is outlined in the default configuration file:
acl_check_rcpt:
# Accept if the source is local SMTP (i.e. not over TCP/IP). We do
# this by
# testing for an empty sending host field.
accept hosts = :
The HELO checks should come somewhere below this - probably after the
postmaster checks.
--
Jez
http://www.munk.nu/
