Re: [exim] Exim server behind NAT router (and HELO)

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Autor: Jakob Hirsch
Datum:  
To: 'Exim-users'
Betreff: Re: [exim] Exim server behind NAT router (and HELO)
Matt Fretwell wrote:

> If, according to the RFC's, a client MUST helo with a valid hostname, and
> doesn't, why should the reference to 'must not refuse to accept', (or
> something similiar), be adhered to?


because the old "be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving"
principle was really not invented in vain.

> If someone who is trying to connect to our system(s) can't be arsed
> adhering to the RFC's, why should we pay any gorm to the RFC's?


tit-for-tat computing? Stone age was a while ago.