Re: errors in hamm upgrade
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, David Gaudine wrote:
>
>
> > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
> >
> > > 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'.
>
> I have the same (or a similar) problem, i.e. when I try to send mail
> using pine I get a message complaining that "localhost" doesn't have a
> "." in it. But, the above fix didn't work, and neither does
> smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet:localhost:127.0.0.1
> What does work is:
> smtp_hello_broken_allow=*
> but I'm not fond of that, for obvious reasons.
In looking into the same problem, somewhere in the smail docs I found a
mention that pine is somewhat broken and that the fix for this is to use:
smtp_hello_broken_allow=127*
Note: running smailconfig resets this, so you will need to re-edit the
file after running this.
Bob
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