[KLUG Members] smtp probelm

[Jason Edward Durrett]

Good - at least I am not the only one.

I am pretty sure the problem is in the header - I just can't seem to
find a way for exim to do a lookup on the originating ip.  Changing the
host_lookup option in the config file seems to have no effect.



Richard Zimmerman wrote:
> 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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>> 
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