[Pkg-exim4-users] Setting HELO string with macro REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2021-08-11 Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I am using exim4-config 4.94.2-7, and try to set the HELO string, as
> the configured hostname does not match the name configured in the DNS
> records.

>     $ more /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/000_localmacros
>     MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = true
>     daemon_smtp_port = 25:587
>     REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA = mail.gw90.de

> But Exim still announces the hostname from `hostname -f` to the other
> MTA and not the one from `000_localmacros`.

> `/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/10_exim4-config_transport-macros` has:
[unchanged config files]
> What am I missing? (As a workaround I changed the hostname, but that is
> not wanted.)

Hello,

does the setting end up in the configuration at all?
exim4 -bP macros | grep REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA
Are you using a locally set up different transport (You could see
the name of the transport in the logfile.)

cu Andreas
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