[Exim] I wish HELO had never been thought of!

This is just a rant really!

I wish the SMTP HELO/EHLO command had never been thought of, let alone introduced!
If it did not exist then I would not be plagued by messages from people complaining
that I am sending out spam and using headers like

Received: from exeter.ac.uk ([64.174.206.89]) by imf41bis.bellsouth.net ...

to justify it. (If you check you will see that 64.174.206.89 is nothing to do with
exeter.ac.uk.)

Given that we have HELO/EHLO then at lease mail server managers should have the good
manners not to stamp messages with it like that!

I presume everyone suffers from this, so can I encourage you all to complain to
postmasters at sites who do this and ask them to re-configure their MTAs to use
reverse IP addresses, not HELO/EHLO information?

Phil.
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Phil Chambers (postmaster@???)
University of Exeter