Re: exim4 and HELO

[Brian Walker <bfwalker@netvigator.com>]

Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> 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
Many thanks Monique and Paul

No success though. I need to put a fully qualified domain name in 
exim4.conf, but for the life of me I cannot see where. Tried as 
suggested, and it laughed at me!

As an aside, the problems really started with a Sarge upgrade a while 
ago, following which my clock time was not updated ... I left it to deal 
with later, as I reasoned it was a simple configuration error of very 
little importance. Any thoughts as to cause?

You mentioned further possibilities ... what are they?

Many thanks

Brian