[Pkg-exim4-users] Manually set the HELO

[Andreas J Guelzow]

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

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Andreas J. Guelzow
Concordia University College of Alberta