Re: [fetchmail-users] change helo/ehlo

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 6/7/07, Florian <ts...@ag...> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> i installed fetchmail 6.3.8+SSL on Trustix.
> Fetching of Mails works, but delivering the mails crashes:

Contents of .fetchmailrc?

In my case, presumably because I've used "set invisible" I see "EHLO
<remote server>".  If I don't set that then I see "EHLO <hostname>".

> How can the HELO/EHLO string be changed?

Change the system's hostname, ie so that "hostname" provides
"myhostname.mydomain.de" rather than just "myhostname".

> According to rfc 2821 i'd like use the fqdn "myhostname.mydomain.de" as
> EHLO-String.
>
> "4.1.1.1  Extended HELLO (EHLO) or HELLO (HELO)
> [...] The argument field contains the fully-qualified domain name
> of the SMTP client if one is available."

Given how few clients actually obey that, if you expect any clients to
connect to that server it's probably best to relax that check.

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