Hello �sten, On Sunday, March 30, 2003 at 5:03:35 PM you [�H]wrote (at least in part):
>> The only thing that's left and comes to my mind is you >> trying to change the name of your computer in network >> identification settings. Make sure it contains only >> ASCII-127 characters �H> This actually worked! Many, many thanks! �H> The name of the computer contained the character "�" which �H> is not so strange considering my name. Removing it seemed to �H> solve the problem. Or whatever the reasons, everything now �H> works OK. Glad you're lucky. The reason it does not work is: it's now RFC compliant. Your former name wasn't, as DNS only allows 7-bit ASCII. Most SMTP servers don't care much about the name given in HELO/EHLO and I can't remember of one not being 8-bit-safe, so it's simply passed through. The server you've just hit seems to care about the HELO/EHLO name and it therefore refused your messages containing an invalid DNS-name. One is in general on the safer side of life when using only ASCII-127 characters in any position being used in a networked environment, e.g. hostnames, greeting strings, etc, unless one has full control over who's connecting and using, like folder names on a Samba share or similar. -- Regards Peter Palmreuther (The Bat! v1.63 Beta/7 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3) God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
