[ On Monday, April 14, 2003 at 18:43:22 (+0100), Alan J. Flavell wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Question about reject logs...
>
> Anyhow - rejecting such attempts at HELO time is risky:
No, not really, at least not for any definition of "risky" I'm aware of.
> it looks as if
> a small but nontrivial proportion of would-be senders treat such a 5xx
> as only temporary, and just keep retrying.
That's irrelevant, so long as you don't allow them to re-connect
immediately (which you do by not giving them the bad news without a
delay). Broken sending-SMTP implementations exhibit broken behaviour.
Please don't bother catering to them.
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