Re: Workaround: baculas bsmtp to localhost not further working in debian 10

[Pierre Bernhardt <pierre@starcumulus.owl.de>]

Am 03.03.20 um 11:26 schrieb Marc Haber:
>> bacula had send a mail to root@localhost smtp connection via the bsmtp before.
>> But beginning with defaults debian 10 exim 4 a identification of a host is
>> needed at start of smtpconnection which is not send by bsmtp.
> Are you saying that bsmtp is directly talking to an SMTP server
> without using the required HELO/EHLO command first?
Yes, exactly.

> Exim has been rejecting such traffic for at least a decade. This is by
> no way new to Debian 10.
But it has been worked for localhost connections before upgraded from
debian 9 to 10. Maybe before 10 it was not needed.

Are you know how it is possible that bsmtp sends also HELO/EHLO?

Cheers,
Pierre