Re[2]: [Exim] exim HELO ack

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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:05:25 +0100 Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@???> wrote:

> Personally I'm not overwhelmed by spammers or other abusers who misuse
> the
> HELO/EHLO command and I can't justify denying or dropping clients based
> solely on the fact that they don't use a FQDN or even an address literal
> in their HELO/EHLO - a lot of my users use OE which appears to not adhere
> to this anyway.


but some of us are getting pounded pretty good by Sobig.F coming from
windoze systems with non-FQDN HELO strings, and it's a good way to
recognize and drop those connections fast and keep our loads down.

richard
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