Re: [exim] exim ejects email from hostname with "_"

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Author: Michael Johnson
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim ejects email from hostname with "_"
On Mar 17, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Steve Zeng wrote:

> We installed Exim 4.43 on FC2. It is faster than sendmail, which is
> great. However, sending email from a host named "canon_bw" was always
> ejected. Then we changed the hostname to canonbw. It works fine. Is
> this the way exim works or an option we can configure?


Using an underscore in a domain name is not allowed according to the
RFC.

-Michael

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