[Pkg-exim4-users] HELO and 192.168

[Jeff Abrahamson]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:59:10AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
>   [40 lines, 316 words, 1844 characters]  Top characters: etonsirh
> 
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 06:23:40PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > 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've been experiencing a very similar problem.  A number of sites try
> to verify the envelope sender of the message; I have a suspicion that
> some also try to verify the machine doing the sending.

I should have responded to the list as a whole and not merely with a
private note of thanks to Juergen, whose advise was on target for my
case.  I set primary_hostname and all has been well since.

-- 
 Jeff

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