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Author: Simon Bell
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To: 'Exim Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: Now well off-topic - was Re: [Exim] how to configure HELO/EHLO and DNS for multi-homed hosts
hm, am i missing something? I am sending these emails through my isp's
mail server, so i have no control over what they use as a HELO/EHLO
value...

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Wakko Warner [mailto:wakko@animx.eu.org]
Sent: 30 June 2003 14:10
To: Giuliano Gavazzi
Cc: aooi58@???; 'Exim Users Mailing List'
Subject: Re: Now well off-topic - was Re: [Exim] how to configure
HELO/EHLO and DNS for multi-homed hosts


> choice 1) mail.mydomain.com: nicer, but Mr Woods unhappy.


My personal choice.

> 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.


This would be dropped at my server. I do some HELO checking. To me,
this looks like spam.

HELOs are accepted if they have atleast 1 dot and doesn't appear at the
beginning or end of the string. x.x would be accepted. I don't do any
dns lookups for this. If you HELO as some domains (ie hotmail.com), I
do check to see if the hostname ends with hotmail.com.

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