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1: sending mail: invalid hostname @HELO problem

Posted by Tom Lazar on 07/18/03 02:37 AM

hi,

i'm not sure whether this is a problem of my dns, my exim setup or of OpenACS, but my exim rejectlog is full (hundreds) of the following entry:

2003-07-18 02:30:22 rejected HELO from localhost.dedicated.hosteurope.de [127.0.0.1]: syntactically invalid argument(s): AOLserver ds80-237-202-128.dedicated.hosteurope.de

now the exim documention says, that this means that exim's getting a syntactiacally invalid hostname in the HELO statement. given that "ds80-237-202-128.dedicated.hosteurope.de" is indeed a valid fqdn and "AOLserver ds80-237-202-128.dedicated.hosteurope.de" definitely not, i was wondering if anyone here knew, how this name could have come about?

in the meantime, none of the subscribers are getting any notifications... argl!

thanks,

tom

2: Re: sending mail: invalid hostname @HELO problem (response to 1)

Posted by Matthew Walker on 07/18/03 03:31 AM

It's in sendmail.tcl in modules/tcl in your aolserver directory, the line looks like:

_ns_smtp_send $wfp "HELO AOLserver [ns_info hostname]" $timeout

just remove the " AOLserver" and restart aolserver.

3: Re: sending mail: invalid hostname @HELO problem (response to 1)

Posted by Tom Lazar on 07/18/03 03:55 AM

hi matthew,

thanks, that did the trick!

tom