Re: [exim] Something weird in my reject logs

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Martin A. Brooks
Date:  
To: Brent Clark, exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Something weird in my reject logs
Brent Clark wrote:
> 2006-05-02 09:46:42 rejected EHLO from [196.41.13.134]: syntactically invalid argument(s): exec_server.spier.co.za
> 2006-05-02 09:46:43 rejected HELO from [196.41.13.134]: syntactically invalid argument(s): exec_server.spier.co.za
>
>
> I doubt this is my side, I havent touched my exim.conf file for ages.
>
> If someone could assist I would be most grateful.


The HELO is including an underscore which breaks RFC1034 (or do I mean
3490?). Anyway, you can configure exim to accept the underscore
character with:

helo_allow_chars = _


Regards

-- 
Martin A. Brooks |  http://www.antibodymx.net/ | Anti-spam & anti-virus
    Consultant    |  martin@???      | filtering. Inoculate
  antibodymx.net  |  m: +4745888254             | your mail system.