Re: [Exim] exim fine-tuning

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: Exim users list
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim fine-tuning
Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@???> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 10:39, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
>> 1) HELO domain matches one of our own domains
>
>> Cases 1 and 2 are surprisingly widespread, considering that they
>> appear to be a sure-fire indicator of abuse. It's a puzzle to me
>> just why abusers would make themselves so obvious: what do they hope
>> to gain from it? Is there -any- mailer where either of these options
>> yield some positive benefit?
>
> I've noticed that Thunderbird (separate MUA component from Mozilla)
> will HELO with the domain part of the sending email account address.


My contribution (C049) to the config.samples tarball takes this into
account

    srs


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