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550 Your HELO string is incorrect

Posted on April 9, 2014

Hi! I have a problem with sending email from my site. Every email returns with this error “550 Your HELO string is incorrect”
OS - ubuntu 12.04 CP - vestacp Is anybody knows how to fi this error? Thanks



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@avelink <br> <br>Like the link Scott pointed to says, it sounds like you probably have a reference to localhost in one of your configuration files when it should be pointing to your domain. <br> <br>Check the contents of the “hostname” field of your: /etc/exim/exim.conf <br> <br>If that isn’t the issue, please post any errors found in your exim log files: /var/log/exim_*

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