If you just create your own exim.conf and put it in /etc/exim4 , you can
do it the old way.
Chad
> 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@???>
> To: exim-users@???
> Send reply to: Dean Staff <dean@???>
> Priority: normal
> 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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