RE: [exim] Bogus HELOs

Jakob Hirsch wrote:
> I treat EHLO data as totally meaningless, so I don't care about it.
> After all, I don't want to lose mail because of such a thing.

I agree with you, for the most part. However, I do feel it's worthwhile
to reject mail from servers that HELO/EHLO with my own name. Over the
last year I've never had a false positive on this. When you consider a
lot of our mail comes from other schools that have a record of technical
incompetence and poorly configured Windows servers, this is a pretty
good indicator of spam.

As always, YMMV.

Steven
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Steven Dickenson <sdickenson@???>
Computer Network Manager
The Key School, Annapolis Maryland