Re: [Evolution] HELO respose error: (again)

[Dave Rigby <drigby opaltelecom co uk>]

Hi Tony,

<snip>

> Thirdly, you're sending EHLO instead of HELO and the Exim binary that
> your MTA uses isn't compiled/configured for it.

OK, I work with the guys who configure the mail server, so do you know
specifically what needs to be setup in the config? I'm vaguely familar
with exim.

> Fourthly Exim doesn't normally take any notice of wrongly formulated
> HELOs (mine s*dd*ng well do), even though you're sending it what is in
> fact a wrongly formulated (syntactically *incorrect*) EHLO, which mine
> would discard, and refuse to accept the message (anti spam, anti virus,
> anti relay etc.).
>
> Fifthly, as you can see, your mail is accepted and queued anyway.
Indeed, the mail is sent (otherwise you wouldn't see this ;-)

> Sixthly, you should ignore the whole thing until your Opaltelecom people
> have learned to configure their Exim mailserver correctly (show them
> this.
Thanks Tony, this includes me!


Regards

Dave 


> > HELO response error: Command not implented
> >
> > The output of the debug from Camel for the conection is:-
> >
> > sending : EHLO [192.168.6.112]
> > received: 502
> >
> > GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 307 (g_hash_table_size): assertion
> > `hash_table != NULL' failed.sending : MAIL
> > FROM:<drigby opaltelecom co uk>
> > received: 250 <drigby opaltelecom co uk> is syntactically correct
> > sending : RCPT TO:<drigby opaltelecom co uk>
> > received: 250 <drigby opaltelecom co uk> verified
> > sending : DATA
> > received: 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
> > sending : \r\n.\r\n
> > received: 250 OK id=17iBZa-0006SG-00
> > sending : RSET
> > received: 250 Reset OK
> > sending : QUIT
> > received: 221 <<server name removed>> closing connection
> >
> > Any thoughts? The mail server works fine with other clients
> >
> >  
> > -- 
> > Regards
> >
> > Dave Rigby <drigby opaltelecom co uk>
> >
> > Opal Telecom
> >
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Dave Rigby <drigby opaltelecom co uk>
IP Services Team

Opal Telecom