On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, David Gaudine wrote: > > > > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: > > > > > Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have > > > a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config > > > which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read > > > 'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'. > > I have the same (or a similar) problem, i.e. when I try to send mail > using pine I get a message complaining that "localhost" doesn't have a > "." in it. But, the above fix didn't work, and neither does > smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet:localhost:127.0.0.1 > What does work is: > smtp_hello_broken_allow=* > but I'm not fond of that, for obvious reasons.
In looking into the same problem, somewhere in the smail docs I found a mention that pine is somewhat broken and that the fix for this is to use: smtp_hello_broken_allow=127* Note: running smailconfig resets this, so you will need to re-edit the file after running this. Bob --- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .