Hi everybody,

My UNIX systems (two different machines using two different MTAs:
sendmail and postfix) send a HELO using localhost. From what I can tell,
this is common practice because administrators want to hide security
details from other mail servers. However, JunkMail marks this as a
problem.

I am trying to relay auto-generated email from a PostNuke environment to
a server that is using JunkMail. It never works, and the main problem
seems to be the way that the PostNuke machine's MTA (postfix, in this
case) is doing a "HELO localhost". Lots of UNIX MTAs do this by default.

I have seen some discussions that say that no decisions should be made
on the content of a HELO object, and others that take for granted that
decisions are indeed being made. What are the prevailing attitudes
towards this? Can this check be disabled in JunkMail? Or is it better to
change what my server says as a HELO? If so, does anybody know how to
change that in sendmail or postfix? Because I can't find it in any
documentation....

Thanks in advance!

Alaina Hardie
Toronto, ON

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