Re: [Evolution] HELO command not supported

[<damiank anobi-asp com>]

Unless the server is a wonderful Micro$oft server.......For some reason,
even though Microsoft asks for the FQDN in windows 2000, i.e. with the
appended origin '.' and the end of the domain-name...  Check this:

Escape character is '^]'.
220 s005034078.asp.anobi.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version:
5.0.2195.3779 ready at  Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:24:01 -0600
HELO mail.anobi-asp.com.
501 5.5.4 Invalid Address
HELO mail.anobi-asp.com
250 s005034078.asp.anobi.com Hello [10.5.99.212]



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Neill" <mark thisismyown com>
To: <evolution ximian com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Evolution] HELO command not supported


> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 damiank anobi-asp com wrote:
> > I've dealt with quite a few SMTP server issues.  If you have no trouble
> > sending to other SMTP servers, try manually sending an email, note:  it
is
> > key that you type line 2 exactly as is.  Some servers try to perform DNS
> > resolution on the privided hostname, I have found that this is the
problem
> > 75% of the time, when OTHER smtp servers work.
>
> No SMTP server should _fail_ what it thinks is an invalid HELO.
>
> In the case of DNS lookups, it should ignore what you tell it your name
> is, replace it with that it thinks your name is, and reply as such back to
> you.
>
> Try telnetting to that SMTP server, and giving it random "HELO blah"
> commands.  Also, try "EHLO blah" (ESMTP negotiation) and see if you get
> failures with that.
>
>
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