Re: [Codestriker-user] Email sending failure: 'Helo command rejected: Host not found'

[David S. <si...@us...>]

> our IT manager changed some rules on our SMTP server and Codestriker 
> (version 1.9.2 on a Gentoo Linux box) can no longer send mail. Every 
> time I take some action that should generate an email I see the 
> following message:
> 
> Couldn't send email to "di...@da..." , <localhost.localdomain>: 
> Helo command rejected: Host not found

Set your $mailhost in your codestriker.conf to the fully qualified name 
of the SMTP server you need to connect to.  At the moment, it looks like 
it is set to localhost.

> The guy said that the SMTP message should either be authenticated or 
> come from a known host. According to him, the host contained in the 
> message is "localhost.localdomain", wich is not a valid host. Since I 
> dont want to use authenticated messages, I would like Codestriker to put 
> the correct hostname and domain into the messages. Has anybody faced 
> this problem before? What is the best solution to this?

I've never seen this issue... but it sounds to me that you will need to 
use SMTP authentication if the above doesn't make a difference.  Why 
don't you want to do this?  Quite a few people have set this up without 
issue.

Cheers,
David