What it means and how to fix the message "rejected MAIL, Access denied - Invalid HELO name (See RFC2821 4.1.1.1)"

Category: Mail

If in your email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, macOS Mail, etc.) you see the following message:

rejected MAIL, Access denied - Invalid HELO name (See RFC2821 4.1.1.1)

This is probably because an option called My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication is missing.

How to fix it in Outlook

Depending on the version and language, go to Tools → Accounts → Preferences → Servers. There activate the SMTP authentication option. If it asks for a username and password, write the full email address and password for that account.

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