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 \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shulman http://kurukshetra.cjb.net/ ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #329350 ~ AIM Djhuty ~ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. -- Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein)
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