[Pkg-exim4-users] HELO and 192.168

[Jeff Abrahamson]

My workstation, astra, 192.168.0.7, is (correctly) not visible via
global DNS.  It sends mail and rewrites headers just fine (see above
headers, e.g.), but some machines check resolution of the address that
exim4 provides on the HELO line.

    HELO astra.purple.com

I've been googling and reading docs for some hours to figure out what
to do, but no luck.  Any suggestions?  (This is debian sarge, exim4
version 4.52-2.)

I think I'd like to have exim4 say something like

    HELO puddle.purple.com
    HELO purple.com

(The first is my NAT box, which doesn't listen for incoming smtp, the
second is not a real machine but there's an MX record.)

Any help appreciated.


Here's the error I receive:

  The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is:

    Xyz at drexel.edu
      Delay reason: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<Xyz at drexel.edu>:
      host smtp.mail.drexel.edu [144.118.31.27]: 450 <astra.purple.com>:
      Helo command rejected: Host not found


-- 
 Jeff

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