Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>On 2004-01-06 10:58:47 +0100, Toralf Lund wrote:
>
>
>>We usually configure our MUAs to send e-mail via SMTP to localhost,
>>where Exim is running. This results in a header of the form:
>>
>>Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1] helo=mydomain)
>> by myhost.mydomain with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1)
>> id 1AdWvu-0005ks-00
>> for user@domain; Mon, 05 Jan 2004 16:46:22 +0100
>>
>>Now, this seems to cause problems with some blacklists etc. on the net;
>>apparently they think "localhost" is evil.
>>
>>
>
>Some blacklist admins are really stupid... or are you sure that
>the reject doesn't come from something else? For instance, I can
>see "helo=mydomain", but mydomain isn't a FQDN (as required by
>SMTP). I know that some servers reject mail because of this. :(
>
>
It's not actually "mydomain", it's our real, fully qualified domain name
(but just the domain, no host part); I edited the headers a bit to
conceal some of the real info due to a sudden attack of paranoia while
writing the message.
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