Re: "Helo command rejected". ?? What's wrong?

Bert Driehuis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Cornelius C. Noack wrote:

> I am using PCpine 4.64 (on a Win XP). Suddenly (since the weekend), PC
> pine rejects my outgoing mail with the message
>
>     [Mail not sent: <HAENDEL>: Helo command rejected: need
> fully-qualified hostname]

Your mail server requires your mail client to identify itself by its 
full Internet name. I'd recommend contacting your Postmaster for more 
details.

> "Haendel" is the name I gave my computer during setup of my LAN
> (desktop-laptop-printer) under Win XP); but I thought that was used by
> Win XP only, and I couldn't find out how or where PCpine ever found
> out about that name, or what it really is complaining about.

I don't know if you can override the host name in PCPine.

> I DID NOT change pinerc recently!
>
> Can anybody help me? Thanks forlistening.
> (I am now writing on my 'backup mail system'  [email protected];
> but I do need to get back to Pcpine rather urgently.)

The change happened on the mail server side.

You could consider changing the name in Windows to 
"haendel.example.com". However, that's playing the sorcerer's 
apprentice. For example, in my $ORKPLACE, the fully qualified domain 
name gets assigned through DHCP, and mucking around with it would be 
frowned upon. I'm led to believe it could even negatively impact your 
Domain logon (but I'm no Windows expert -- your milage may vary).

I'ld contact the Postmaster.

Cheers,

 				-- Bert
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