At 15:26 -0400 2003/08/27, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>[ On Wednesday, August 27, 2003 at 12:18:16 (-0400), Wakko Warner wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: [Exim] exim HELO ack
>>
>> If you check the helo string in the helo don't. Put it in the MAIL or RCPT
>> acl.
>
>There's no reason to do that any more -- the mailers that ignored 5xx
>errors on HELO have effectively disappeared for all intents and purposes.
only problem is that spammers use software which can ignore HELO/EHLO
errors, and last time I checked (IIRW) exim will accept the delivery
even after a failed HELO (at least for illegal chars).
If this is still true one must, also or only, reject at RCPT or DATA time.
Giuliano
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