Author: Matt Fretwell Date: To: exim Subject: Re: [exim] Bogus HELOs
Dickenson, Steven 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.
Couldn't agree more :) Even if it was a legitimate connection, anybody
thick enough to config their machines to do that deserves to be blocked.
