[Gllug] helo ehlo lhlo

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Tue Oct 11 00:21:16 UTC 2005


On Mon 10 Oct, Chris Bell wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>    Many years ago I decided that my ISP may change over time, or I may have
> more than one route to the internet. My email address was/is specific to my
> ISP, so I did not wish to tie the name of my internal network to a specific
> ISP. I have an internal mailserver which is currently running Debian Woody,
> and is about to be replaced by one running Sarge, but I have yet to discover
> which part of my system configuration sets the "helo", "ehlo", or "lhlo"
> response, pointers please. Thanks.
> 
   Thanks for the replies.
   I can use almost unlimited user names at my official domain name, and the
"From: " address re-writing appears to work, but I am trying to ensure that
the response given by my main and standby mailservers to a challenge is not

"box_name.localdomain" but "my_official_domain" which is
"hostname.demon.co.uk"

-- 
Chris Bell

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