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#230 bad HELO

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daemon (55)
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2005-01-05
2005-01-05
No

When the mailer daemon sends an email to a SMTP server,
it gives the server hostname instead of its own
hostname as HELO.
Here is an example of email I sent myself:

Return-path: <sylvain@becoz.org>
Envelope-to: daixiwen@daixiwen.net
Delivery-date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:48:00 +0100
Received: from odin.intra.daixiwen.net ([192.168.1.2]
helo=smtp.intra.daixiwen.net)
by thor.daixiwen.net with smtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD)
id 1Cm8hr-000Fbo-Sx
for daixiwen@daixiwen.net; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:47:59 +0100
To: daixiwen@daixiwen.net
Subject: essai
X-Mailer: BeMail - Mail Daemon Replacement 3.0.0 Final
From: "Sylvain Tertois" <sylvain@becoz.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:47:49 +0100 CET
Message-Id: <9578016030-BeMail@>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

smtp.intra.daixiwen.net is the SMTP server, and the
BeOS machine hostname is odin.intra.daixiwen.net. The
HELO should be either odin or odin.intra.daixiwen.net .

It's not a high priority bug in my opinion but it
should be easely fixed.

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