[KLUG Members] smtp probelm

Richard Zimmerman ke4rit at knbpower.com
Mon Oct 2 14:00:08 EDT 2006


Funny, I was just troubleshooting the very same issue. Definitely looks 
like an AOL issue. My co-worker was sending a text email with *NO* <a 
href> references anywhere in the email.

Richard "Goose" Zimmerman
K&B Transport, Elkhart Indiana

Jason Edward Durrett wrote:
> A problem just cropped up sending to AOL addresses.  This is the error
> from their help page:
>
> EXPLANATION:
> One or more URLs in your message contain an IP address in place of a
> domain name.
>
> SOLUTION:
>  Please make sure that all URLs in your message contain domain names and
> not IP addresses. All <a href> tags must be entered as a domain name and
> not an IP address.
>
> This is the part of the header that contains the problem:
>
> Return-path: <jed at shackman.com>
> Received: from [64.136.243.221] (helo=[10.3.1.19])
> 	by mail.shackman.com with esmtps
>
>
> If I am sending directly from the mail server, ie using mutt, the
> message goes through just fine.  Does anyone know where to change an
> exim configuration so the header contains the originating host name
> instead of an ip address?
>
> Thanks,
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