Walter Hofmann writes:
> You said that the hotmail error message was about a closed connection
> after Exim sent "HELO localhost". This could easily be a spam blocker at
> hotmail. SMTP says that the mailer should say "HELO name" or "EHLO name"
> as the first command, where "name" is the name of your machine.
Makes sense to me.
> Maybe you shouldn't (externally) call your machine "localhost".
> Search for "localhost" in the exim config file and change it to
> something reasonable.
It only appears in the settings for `local_domains' and
`host_accept_relay', both of which make sense to me. I tried setting
`primary_hostname' to something reasonable, and it seems to have
worked. Thanks for your help.
BTW, the Exim info file says
The RFCs mandate that a server must not reject a message because it
doesn't like the HELO or EHLO command.
Apparently Hotmail thinks it's above RFCs.
Thanks,
Mike
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