On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Chris Edwards wrote:
> Exim checks the syntax of HELO and EHLO commands for incoming SMTP mail,
> and gives an error response for invalid data
>
> which I suppose it does. But this is hardly rejecting the mail. Shurely
and it also gives the explanation:
helo_try_verify_hosts Type: host list* Default: unset |
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The RFCs mandate that a server must not reject a message because it |
doesn't like the HELO or EHLO command.
"MUST NOT", that is. may i suppose you are out of luck here, as far as
exim goes ;).
you could probably quite easily (not checked, though) implement
something like `helo_reject_chars'...
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