Re: errors in hamm upgrade

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

Thanks, that fixed it.

On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:29:41PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > 2.  When trying to send a message from pine, I get:
> >  [Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'localhost' ]
> > 
> > I have 'localhost' configured as the smtp server in pine, which used to
> > send the message through smail and then to my ISP as smarthost.  This
> > worked in bo.  Has something changed?
> 
> Yes.  Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have
> a dot in them.  The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config
> which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read
> 'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'.
> Hope this helps.




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