Re: [Exim] New HELO check suite

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Author: Giuliano Gavazzi
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To: Andrew - Supernews, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] New HELO check suite
At 11:51 pm +0100 2004/05/25, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
>That'll lose you some mail from sites where the HELO name is actually
>a valid FQDN, but isn't resolvable from outside the sender's network
>(I've seen that happen several times for various reasons). In such cases
>the "deny" above may end up deferring the mail indefinitely, since the
>dnsdb lookup will cause it to defer on a query timeout or SERVFAIL.


that is against RFC anyway, so one might like to indefinitely defer...
I like the new warn behaviour in such cases however, as I want to be
able to decide myself if the email needs to be rejected or not! [I
give points..]

Giuliano
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