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Re: Weird HELO's
On Fri, 17 Feb 1995, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
> I've noticed that Sendmail sometimes issues a HELO command that looks
> like the following:
>
> HELO gasmail@xmission.com
>
> but all versions of zmailer reject it. Isn't this contary to the RFC's?
> Does anyone know under what circumstances Sendmail does this?
It's pretty easy to mis-configure a vanilla sendmail (that host's
sendmail.cf file is badly configured :-)
Yes it's an invalid parameter to HELO, and smart mailer's (i.e. Zmailer)
won't tolerate it:
HELO gasmail@xmission.com
501- ^
501 Invalid `HELO gasmail@xmission.com' parameter! Err: Spurious junk
after the DOMAIN in HELO/EHLO argument
what this means is that '@' is not allowed in a DOMAIN specification.
The parameter for HELO is a DOMAIN, not an address
About the only thing you can do is notify the postmaster at that site.
(really needs to be 'xmission.xmission.com' )
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