Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

Hello Roelof Otten & everyone else, on 06-Dez-2006 at 01:45 you (Roelof Otten) wrote: ASK>> Hmmm. I'd regard that as problematic just as well. My IP address ASK>> is dynamic and has nothing to do with the mail relayer that is set ASK>> for my domain. A reverse lookup in the HELO state would fail.

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 08:36:25 -0600, Chris W. wrote: > Unless your local computer is the mail host for kentra.co.uk, you don't > want to identify yourself as kentra.co.uk. Something like your > computer's name or the-randomly-assigned-name-given-you-by.your-isp.com > would work better. > Have you

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

Barry @ 2006-12-06 3:02:51 AM "Can someone explain HELO to me?" > My knowledge on this subject is 'nil', hence my original post. > However, my newsreader (Dialog) has an 'Advanced SMTP Settings' > dialog which allows the user to specifically set the SM

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 01:45:32 +0100, Roelof Otten wrote: >> Hmmm. I'd regard that as problematic just as well. My IP address is >> dynamic and has nothing to do with the mail relayer that is set for my >> domain. A reverse lookup in the HELO state would fail. > But still it's what it's supposed to

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

Hallo Alexander, On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:47:21 +0100GMT (5-12-2006, 21:47 , where I live), you wrote: >> In older versions a reference to the respective ISP is used. ASK> Hmmm. I'd regard that as problematic just as well. My IP address is ASK> dynamic and has nothing to do with the mail relayer th

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

Hi On Tuesday 5 December 2006 at 8:14:04 PM, in , Peter Meyns wrote: > Hi MFPA, > on Tue, 5 Dec 2006 20:09:07 +GMT (05.12.2006, 21:09 +0100GMT here), > you wrote: >>> When a client like TB talks to an SMTP server, the machine usually has >>> no fully qualified domain name, so the local mach

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

Hello Peter Meyns & everyone else, on 05-Dez-2006 at 21:34 you (Peter Meyns) wrote: >>> No, not here. It uses localhost instead. ASK>> That is a bug of the current betas .07 and .08. ASK>> > I checked older messages. It is the same in the release ve

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

Hi Alexander, on Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:22:09 +0100GMT (05.12.2006, 21:22 +0100GMT here), you wrote: M>>> What about start > control panel > system > computer name? Does M>>> TB! not use that anymore? >> No, not here. It uses localhost instead. ASK> That is a bug of the current betas .07 and .08.

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

Hello Peter Meyns & everyone else, on 05-Dez-2006 at 21:14 you (Peter Meyns) wrote: M>> What about start > control panel > system > computer name? Does M>> TB! not use that anymore? > No, not here. It uses localhost instead. That is a bug of the current betas .07 and .08.

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

Hi MFPA, on Tue, 5 Dec 2006 20:09:07 +GMT (05.12.2006, 21:09 +0100GMT here), you wrote: >> When a client like TB talks to an SMTP server, the machine usually has >> no fully qualified domain name, so the local machine's name is used >> instead. >>> Can I decide what this should be? >> No.

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

Hi On Tuesday 5 December 2006 at 6:48:38 PM, in , Alexander S. Kunz wrote: > When a client like TB talks to an SMTP server, the machine usually has > no fully qualified domain name, so the local machine's name is used > instead. >> Can I decide what this should be? > No. What about start > con

Re: Can someone explain HELO to me?

Hello Barry & everyone else, on 05-Dez-2006 at 17:42 you (Barry) wrote: > Does TB! decide this? Yes (but actually, the current alpha/beta versions use "localhost", which is quite problematic). > Why? In the SMTP "handshake state" the client (or rather, the machine wishing to relay a message to

Can someone explain HELO to me?

Hi all Looking at headers from TB I can see Helo=Office Office is the "Full Computer Name" of my XP desktop machine. Does TB! decide this? Why? Can I decide what this should be? -- Best regards Barry barryh'at'kentra'dot'co'dot'uk Using TheBat! version 3.85.03 and AntispamSniper 1.6.7.3 ___