Re: [Evolution] HELO command not supported

["Zot O'Connor" <zot zotconsulting com>]

More importantly be willing to wait 10 minutes.  We are getting this on
a server with bad reverse DNS lookups.  EVO may be timing out.

On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 08:41, Mark Neill wrote:
> 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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