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From: owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com]On Behalf Of
administrator(_at_)yellowhead(_dot_)com
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:51 AM
To: spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [spf-discuss] Fw: Received your email
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I think you guys are missing the point here. This was not a
misconfigured MTA.
Yes it is, according to RFC 2821, because the HELO is neither a FQDN nor an
address literal.
There was no provision with the supplied User Interface
for the user
to change the HELO response; it was a standard installation. For that
The UI not supplying the ability to configure said parameter has no bearing on
whether or not the
server is misbehaving aka misconfigured.
matter, I never ever knew what our Sendmail server was sending for a
response, and the only way I could find out was to run a
packet analyzer on
the receiving server.
That is unfortunate.
This is way beyond the average email
administrator's
capability.
Agreed
The fix that I implemented was a work around, and I don't
know if it will
persist after the first configuration change using the
supplied UI (Web
Interface).
Again unfortunate. I doubt that is actually a bug in sendmail, more like a bug
in the configuration
UI (is it an add on?). But it is why I *never* use GUI's to configure systems
unless I have to.
(One also learns a hell of a lot by reading a config file, even a sendmail
config file... :)
Terry
J.A. Coutts
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