Thanks to everyone who responed so quickly...
I've take your advice, and found hoe to add the primary_hostname= foo
line to my setup. (exim 4 is not as simple to modify as exim 3..
atleast not if installed from .deb binaries) But it now works
Thanks
Dean
On 22 Oct 2003 at 19:58, Dean Staff wrote:
From: "Dean Staff" <dean@???>
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Subject: [Exim] how do you override default helo
Date sent: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:58:12 -0400
> Hi,
> I'm new to the list, and to Exim. I've use qmail for years and just
> made the switch... I've had a couple of emails bounce on me with
> following error... SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT
> TO:<somerecipient@???>:
> host mail.isp.com [66.xx.xxx.xxx]: 504 <DEA01FW-Clean>:
> Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname
>
> My mail server host name is infact DEA01FW (not-Clean)
> In qmail I could change the host name sent to a HELO query by editing
> a helo config file... How do I do the same in Exim 4.22? I'd like it
> to respond with mail.mydomain.name.
>
> I've tried going through the Exim Spec, can't find it easily.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Dean
>
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