Re: exim4 and HELO

["Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On 2004-05-04, Brian Walker penned:
> Greetings,
>
> playing around with installing exim4 for mutt 1.5, I am unable to find 
> out how to rectify this problem:
>
> exim4 -v abc@def
>
> the output includes the error message:
> SMTP<< EHLO
> SMTP<< 501 5.0.0 EHLO requires domain address
>
> in /etc/hostname I have tried various addresses including localhost and 
> 127.0.0.1
>
> the exim4 config mentions EHLO once - uncommented the script, no effect 
> on output.
>
> Where do I make the change/add a domain address to please HELO/EHLO?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Brian
>
>

A few possibilities, but try putting this in your exim4 configuration:

primary_hostname = your.fully.qualified.domain.name

-- 
monique