At 13:46 +0100 2003/06/30, Simon Bell wrote:
>I run a small mail server for myself and a few friends off my dsl, which
>does have a static IP address. I have no huge knowledge of dns or rfc's
>and at present my helo is identifying itself as mail.mydomain.com. if
>someone were to resolve that, it would give my ip address, and if they
>were to do it again, they would get my dsl address, so should i be
>sending helo/ehlo as mail.mydomain.com or as my.dsl.address.com ?
>
choice 1) mail.mydomain.com: nicer, but Mr Woods unhappy.
choice 2) my.dsl.address.com: but only if this resolves to your IP.
Mr Woods happy.
BUT what is this crap:
Received: from THUNDER (usercf098.dsl.pipex.com [62.190.237.98])
^^^^^^^
this would certainly get spam points on my system.
Giuliano
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