Henry Blackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > The machine name that you are presenting in the HELO phase of the
> > SMTP conversation is being rejected by the remote host, probably
> > because it doesn't resolve or similar.
>
> Could that be caused because the machine name in the reverse DNS of
> the IP didn't match the name in the forward DNS? I found that to be
> true here, but can't really test again until the DNS has updated on
> the other machines.
It could be for any reason, including the phase of the moon. Sites do
all kinds of weird things in an attempt to reduce the amount of spam
they get, to little effect. Never mind that the RFCs say you mustn't
reject mail based on the contents of the HELO argument.
Charles
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