On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 02:59:14PM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Tue 15 Nov 2016 at 09:18:33 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Second choice: > > System mail name: > > eeg.ccf.org
> > Eighth choice: > > Keep number of DNS-queries minimal? > > No > > You didn't use "yes"? Of course not. Why would I do that? I'm not on dialup. I'm on a corporate LAN where I run my own DNS nameservers. > It would also happily send a string without dots as the HELO. Isn't that controlled by the "System mail name" option? As you can see, mine is set to eeg.ccf.org. Whether this is something I typed into exim config by hand long ago, or something that it picked up by itself from /etc/resolv.conf, I can no longer remember. Either way, I would have made sure it was correct. > Whether the remote server is happy is another matter. Indeed. A mail server should be properly configured, not just left as "best guess from defaults".
