Re: [Exim] 503 Bad sequence of commands

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Date:  
To: William Joye
CC: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: Re: [Exim] 503 Bad sequence of commands
William Joye [1/16/2004 9:11 PM] :

> Hello,
>
> I have installed the last version of Exim on my Debian server (4.30). I have
> turn the verbose log on because I have a lot of error message like :
>
> 503 Bad Sequence
> 503 Duplicate HELO/EHLO
>
> Here is a part of log about the problem when Exim try to send the message to
> a remote server :
>
> 18970 Exim version 4.30 uid=105 gid=105 pid=18970 D=40001


Do you have a cisco pix or other hardware firewall that frontends port
25 in front or your mailserver?

Or does the remote end have one at their end?

Munging domains like this makes your logs completely useless for any
sort of debugging by the way.

> 18970 LOG: MAIN
> 18970 ** address@??? R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp_nobatch: SMTP error
> from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:<sender@???>: host
> remailer.xxx.xxx [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]: 503 Bad sequence of commands
> 18970 LOG: MAIN


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