Problem sending email

[ghooton]

When I try to send email I get :- Message send failed: HELO/EHLO must contain a FQDN or IP literal HELO/EHLO must contain a FQDN or IP literal
My setup details:
egroupware-epl (17.1.20190402)
php 7.2.18-1
Debin 9
MySQL : MariaDB 10.3.15
MTA: exim 4.89

The error message on the MTA [exim] is
temporarily rejected RCPT xxxx@xxx.yyyy.zz Bad HELO: Syntactically invalid HELO

I can send email from thunderbird on my desktop using the above MTA

[RalfBecker]

EGroupware is doing absolutely nothing here.

Horde_Smtp used PHP function gethostname() to determine the name of the host it’s running on and sends that to the SMTP server.

Maybe you missed to configure that correctly on your webserver.
To check you can run e.g.:

RalfsMac:~ ralf$ php -r 'var_dump(gethostname());'
Command line code:1:
string(14) "RalfsMac.local"

Or disable the check on your MTA.

Ralf

[ghooton]

Thanks Ralph,

Yes, the error was in the /etc/hosts

RalfBecker EGroupware GmbH
May 27
EGroupware is doing absolutely nothing here.

Horde_Smtp used PHP function gethostname() to determine the name of the host it’s running on and sends that to the SMTP server.

Maybe you missed to configure that correctly on your webserver.
To check you can run e.g.:

> RalfsMac:~ ralf$ php -r 'var_dump(gethostname());'
> Command line code:1:
> string(14) "RalfsMac.local"