Re: [Exim] helo: ip number instead of hostname?

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Date:  
To: Ferenc Engard
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] helo: ip number instead of hostname?
Ferenc Engard [3/1/2004 10:31 PM] :
> There are some hosts which check HELO addresses, and as my exim
> is on a dial-up server, my primary hostname (for my internal use) is
> rejected. I suspect that my outgoing interface's IP address would be
> good, but I do not know how to pass it to the helo_data option.


More likely they block you because you are on a dialup.

http://www.hserus.net/exim.html to route your mail through a smarthost
should help you.

> exim 3.36.


Upgrade. This smells strongly of a debian install, so maybe you can
just download Andreas Metzler's backported version.

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