Re: [Exim] RFC: Fighting Spam due to forgeries of outblaze …

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Author: Edgar Lovecraft
Date:  
To: exim-users
CC: Wakko Warner
Subject: Re: [Exim] RFC: Fighting Spam due to forgeries of outblaze domains
Wakko Warner wrote:
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> > Not if you also check that the PTR name looks up to the same IP.
> Last time I looked, Exim will only set the hostname if the rdns name
> resolves back to the same IP.
>

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Exim 2.4x (and 2.3x i believe) will set the $sender_host_name upon lookup
of PTR records to what the DNS resolver PTR returns for $sender_host_address.
This is not the same as asking exim if helo/ehlo is verified.
--EAL--