[Techtalk] exim no longer sending mail

[Caroline Johnston]

Hi chix,

I was sending mail from a perl web app using exim and it's suddenly
stopped working. I thought it might be a firewall problem, but I don't
know enough about how exim works to translate the error message I get when
I try to send something from the command line. Output is below. Could
someone give me a rough english translation?

Cheers,
Cass.

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# exim -v -odf cjohnsa
This is a test
.
LOG: MAIN
  <= root at essex.ac.uk U=root P=local S=255
delivering 1FzHIQ-00049D-4v
Connecting to serlx29.essex.ac.uk [155.245.48.16]:25 ... connected
  SMTP<< 220 serlx29.essex.ac.uk ESMTP Exim 4.60 Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:06:37
+0100
  SMTP>> EHLO (none)
  SMTP<< 501 Syntactically invalid EHLO argument(s)
  SMTP>> HELO (none)
  SMTP<< 501 Syntactically invalid HELO argument(s)
  SMTP>> QUIT
LOG: MAIN
  ** root at essex.ac.uk R=exchange T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote
mail server after HELO (none): host serlx29.essex.ac.uk [155.245.48.16]:
501 Syntactically invalid HELO argument(s)
LOG: MAIN
  Frozen (delivery error message)
LOG: MAIN
  Completed