Re: [exim] A riddle: What HELO/EHLO does remote host send?

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Marc Haber wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:14:27 +0000 (GMT), Dennis Davis
> <D.H.Davis@???> wrote:
> >(4) A selection of names, eg "localhost.localdomain".
>
> During a period of time, newly installed Debian systems had their
> /etc/hosts misconfigured in a way that an installed exim 4 would HELO as
> localhost.localdomain. I suspect that most rejections based on that rule
> are false positives, maybe even from systems installed on your own
> campus.

I don't call that a 'false positive', I call it a misconfigured system
that needs to be fixed :).

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks, Computing Officer, IT Services University Of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, UK