At 8:28 am -0800 2004/12/16, Marc Perkel wrote: >Yes - but - Exim does allow the HELO to not be a DNS name at all and
>it allows that there might not be a HELO at all. So I think it's is
>at least inconsistent with other loose rules regarding HELO.
I may be rude sometimes, but that does not mean that I must be rude
all the time.
>
>Quite frankly - I'm not sure that the HELO has any useful
>functionality in the first place and I wonder why it even exists.
>
it might have no functionality, but even a server does not have to be rude.
