Re: EHLO command rejected / postfix IPv6

[Arnout Engelen <arnouten@bzzt.net>]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 01:21:30AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jul 19, Baptiste SIMON <baptiste.simon@e-glop.net> wrote:
> > Jul 19 20:11:23 [postfix/smtpd] 6B0B413997: reject: RCPT from
> > beta.loc.e-glop.net[2001:7a8:4b09:1:230:1bff:feb1:defa]: 501
> > <[IPv6:2001:7a8:4b0
> > 9:1:230:1bff:feb1:defa]>: Helo command rejected: invalid ip address;
> > from=<baptiste.simon@e-glop.net> to=<beta@e-glop.net> proto=ESMTP helo=<[
> > IPv6:2001:7a8:4b09:1:230:1bff:feb1:defa]>
> 
> This is evil. The HELO argument should be a domain name, not an IP
> address, even in brackets.
> Postfix is correct in refusing this, fix thunderbird.

agreed - though the error message ('invalid ip address') is rather misleading.

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Arnout Engelen <arnouten@bzzt.net>

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