Unless the server is a wonderful Micro$oft server.......For some reason, even though Microsoft asks for the FQDN in windows 2000, i.e. with the appended origin '.' and the end of the domain-name... Check this:
Escape character is '^]'. 220 s005034078.asp.anobi.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 5.0.2195.3779 ready at Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:24:01 -0600 HELO mail.anobi-asp.com. 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address HELO mail.anobi-asp.com 250 s005034078.asp.anobi.com Hello [10.5.99.212] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [Evolution] HELO command not supported > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've dealt with quite a few SMTP server issues. If you have no trouble > > sending to other SMTP servers, try manually sending an email, note: it is > > key that you type line 2 exactly as is. Some servers try to perform DNS > > resolution on the privided hostname, I have found that this is the problem > > 75% of the time, when OTHER smtp servers work. > > No SMTP server should _fail_ what it thinks is an invalid HELO. > > In the case of DNS lookups, it should ignore what you tell it your name > is, replace it with that it thinks your name is, and reply as such back to > you. > > Try telnetting to that SMTP server, and giving it random "HELO blah" > commands. Also, try "EHLO blah" (ESMTP negotiation) and see if you get > failures with that. > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
