Anthony de Boer wrote: > Stanislaw Halik wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006, Marc Perkel wrote: >> >>> Is there a simple way to set my HELO to be the same as my RDNS? >>> >> 1. Check your reverse DNS with lookup dnsdb >> 2. Set it with helo_data in your remote smtp transport. >> 3. ??? >> 4. Profit! >> > > Fairly simple so long as the box has only one Internet-facing IP > address and it has stable reverse DNS. > > At one point a few years back I had to deal with a box that had multiple > interfaces whose names differed; some use of Linux iptables convinced it > that all outbound SMTP connections had to come from one particular IP > address, after which setting HELO to be that name was trivial. > > Anyone trying to run a mailserver on a dynamic address would likely find > this sort of thing to be one of the many forms of grief they get. >
I'm not running on a dynamic IP address but I use a different IP for sender verification than sending email. And I often have to change IP addresses when the server gets blacklisted. So I need the HELO to change to match the IP of the interface I'm using. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
