Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 17:56:59 +0000 (GMT), Jethro R Binks > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Marc Haber wrote: >>> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:14:27 +0000 (GMT), Dennis Davis >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> (4) A selection of names, eg "localhost.localdomain". >>> During a period of time, newly installed Debian systems had their >>> /etc/hosts misconfigured in a way that an installed exim 4 would HELO as >>> localhost.localdomain. I suspect that most rejections based on that rule >>> are false positives, maybe even from systems installed on your own >>> campus. >> I don't call that a 'false positive', I call it a misconfigured system >> that needs to be fixed :). > > Agreed. But, is this misconfiguration _that_ bad to reject e-mails? >
IMHO, it is. If you want to collaborate to the internet and run a public server without annoying your neighbours, you should at least ensure that you have done your best to configure your server. A trivial thing is to give your system a name and configure the DNS to have it recognized.
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