Re: [exim] reject-log question

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Author: Christopher Chaduka
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To: exim-users
CC: Steffen Heil
Subject: Re: [exim] reject-log question
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 16:32, Steffen Heil wrote:
> Hi
>
> I thought, I understood most of exims logs, but now I found a entry:
>
> 2004-09-15 21:34:58 rejected HELO from [62XXX41]: syntactically invalid
> argument(s): nt_49613199.intern.XXX.de

[...]
> Can someone explain me those line?


..see the other post for a solution

> What is syntactically invalid on this?


That machine is using an invalid hostname in it's HELO command.
nt_49613199.intern.XXX.de is syntactically invalid, typical M$ config.
Hostnames are not allowed to have underscores in them.


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Christopher Chaduka
Technical Department
MWEB Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd
http://www.mweb.co.zw