Re: [exim] Outgoing Hostname and IP

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Author: Grant Peel
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To: Dave Lugo, exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Outgoing Hostname and IP
Hmmm,

All my hosts have thier own IP and every IP resolves back (rDNS) to the
domain it belongs to.

-G


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Lugo" <dlugo@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [exim] Outgoing Hostname and IP


> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Renaud Allard wrote:
>>
>> If I understand you well, you would like exim to make a HELO reflecting
>> sender's domain name? I don't think you can configure exim in such a way.
>
> I think you can...
>
>> Furthermore IMHO that would be a bad idea as you HELO/RDNS wouldn't
>> match and some sites filter on this. Some people also filter on IPs with
>> changing HELOs as they mostly are zombies.
>>
>
> ...and for the reasons enumerated above, it's a bad idea.
>
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