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

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Συντάκτης: Marc Haber
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Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] A riddle: What HELO/EHLO does remote host send?
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 17:56:59 +0000 (GMT), Jethro R Binks
<jethro.binks@???> wrote:
>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 :).


Agreed. But, is this misconfiguration _that_ bad to reject e-mails?

Greetings
Marc

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