[lug] exim and Yahoo!

Tue Apr 30 15:30:29 MDT 2002

Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:

>Last week Yahoo! stopped allowing free POP3 access. 
>Since then, I have been unable to send mail to a
>Yahoo! address using exim locally.
>
>Have any other exim users noticed anything strange?  I
>get the message (from exim's log file):
>
>2002-04-30 15:07:19 172eqF-0001DK-00 **
>sledgehammer2010 at yahoo.com R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp:
>SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL
>FROM:<dreddy at greatspacetoaster> SIZE=2478: host
>mx2.mail.yahoo.com [64.157.4.82]: 501 Syntax error in
>parameters or arguments
>
>This
>(http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-19990809/013827.html)
>leads me to believe that Yahoo! may have changed
>something.
>
>Thanks,
>Dhruva
>

If I'm not mistaken; I think your greatspacetoaster is probably not a 
fully qualified domain name.  I had the same problem a couple months ago.

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