Re: [Exim] HELO acl

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Lähettäjä: William Thompson
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Vastaanottaja: exim-users
Aihe: Re: [Exim] HELO acl
> > My idea was to drop (instead of deny) spammers that use HELOs of aol or
> > hotmail or my own IP address at HELO time instead of MAIL time.
>
> But what is the advantage of dropping them at HELO time? You can equally
> well drop them at RCPT time. That is more flexible, because you can have
> exceptions, such as letting through mail to postmaster. Anyway, dropping
> the connection will often just lead to them trying again. Better to send
> 5xx to all the RCPTs.


Personally, I wouldn't want these kind of people sending email to my
postmaster anyway (I know it's against RFCs).

> But if people want the patch, I don't have a strong reason for not
> putting it in the code.


Why not? we have acls for everything else, right?