On 2004-05-05, Brian Walker penned:
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
Does your machine have an entry for itself in /etc/hosts ? If so, try making sure that the fqdn is the first entry listed for the machine.
That is the solution. It took me hours to figure out that it the order of the names in /etc/hosts made such an enormous difference. to whether exim worked.
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