Re: [Exim] exim HELO ack

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Author: Exim Users Mailing List
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To: Giuliano Gavazzi
CC: Exim Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim HELO ack
[ On Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 13:36:20 (+0100), Giuliano Gavazzi wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] exim HELO ack
>
> only problem is that spammers use software which can ignore HELO/EHLO
> errors,


Last time I checked carefully I found most such spamware didn't retry.

> and last time I checked (IIRW) exim will accept the delivery
> even after a failed HELO (at least for illegal chars).


Then what's the purpose of such a broken HELO ACL? All commands after a
failed HELO, except of course another HELO, or a QUIT, or a RSET, must
be rejected as being out-of-order.

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