[Pkg-exim4-users] Manually set the HELO

[Simon Faulkner]

Andreas J Guelzow wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 13:38 +0000, Simon Faulkner wrote:
>   
>> I am so sorry if this has been answered before but I would like to know 
>> if there is a simple way of setting the HELO in a standard Debian Exim 
>> install?
>>
>> I understand that the best way to do it is by fixing the hostname but 
>> there are times when that's not simple either.
>>
>> I have spent 2 hours trying all sorts of things in 
>> update-exim4.conf.conf but I couldn't set the helo
>>
>> Anyway, just asking :-)
>>     
>
> I am using the many-files configuration and have defined among my custom
> macros:
>
> REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA = srv.math.concordia.ab.ca
>
> which is then apparently used by
> conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp:
> .ifdef REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA
>   helo_data=REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA
> .endif
>
>
>
> Andreas
>
>   
Thank you Andreas, I am sure it is 'something' like this but

Sadly this does not work for me:

debian:~# dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf: line 33: REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA: 
command not found

Simon

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