I have tested the address 66.35.250.206 and you get that error with an '@' in the HELO command which uses /var/qmail/control/me as the name to send for the HELO command, make sure you have a hostname in this file and not an E-Mail address.
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, xspace wrote: > im sending a mail and my log file tells me > > Connected_to_66.35.250.206_but_my_name_was_rejected > ./Remote_host_said:_501_Syntactically_invalid_HELO_argument(s)/ > > anyone knows what qmail means ? >