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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Problems with mh smtp
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.140946.14557@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 14:09:46 GMT
References: <MICHAEL.91Jun26233020@dyall.ists.ca>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <MICHAEL.91Jun26233020@dyall.ists.ca> michael@dyall.ists.ca (Michael Roberts) writes:
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>Mail software: Zmailer
>
>"503 Waiting for HELO command".  Here is a dump of my smtpserver log:
>
  sendmail does not insist on the HELO command.  Apparently Zmailer does.

  With sendmail, when it receives the HELO command it compares the host
name to its own, and if they are the same, it aborts with a message
something like "I refuse to talk to myself" or "Local configuration error".
This is presumably why when you configure for sendmail, the HELO command is
not used.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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