Re: Avoiding a "Bogus HELO" error

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From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] (dianenws_at_poremsky.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:18:02 -0400

Your isp's SMTP is the one that is misconfigured, it should add their FQDN
to the header. The best you can do is configure windows xp pro's SMTP to
forward the mail to your ISPs server and configure it to add a FQDN. 

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"Dan" <bogus@foo.bar> wrote in message 
news:ugVBML7qEHA.3840@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> My outgoing messages get tagged as spam by many spam filters because of
> "Bogus HELO" headers.
>
> I am using an ISP's SMTP server for sending mail; is there any way to
> configure TCP/IP on my end (Windows XP Pro) to solve the problem?
> Basically, I need my machine name to show up as a fully-resolved name, not
> just the single-word name that I've assigned to it locally.
>
> Thanks,
> -dan
>
>

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