On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Charlie Brady wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Peter Samuel wrote: > > > Rasjid has not responded to my request to see if using an IP address in > > his /var/qmail/control/helohost file worked, so I've done the test > > myself: > ... > > telnet 210.9.200.225 25 > > Trying 210.9.200.225... > > Connected to 210.9.200.225. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > 220 mail.oranaschool.com GroupWise Internet Agent 5.5.5 Ready (C)1993, 1998 > > Novell, Inc. > > helo [216.191.234.126] > > 504 DNS verification of sending machine failed: no mail will be accepted > > Connection closed by foreign host. > > Wouldn't he want "helohost" to match the reverse lookup of his IP address? > That would be easy to work out in a template, and could be updated during > the "ip-change" event if required.
Certainly. My tests were also meant to show that the Novell SMTP server was non-compliant. The coding of either[1] method is left as an exercise to the reader. [1] In this case, using an IP address will fail, but who knows about other SMTP servers. -- Regards Peter ---------- Peter Samuel, Senior Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-smith.org (development) http://www.mitel.com (corporate) Phone: +1 613 592 2122 Fax: +1 613 592 1175 Mitel Networks, 350 Legget Dr, Ottawa, ON K2K 2W7 Canada "If you kill all your unhappy customers, you'll only have happy ones left" -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
