RE: [exim] Bogus HELOs

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Author: David Brodbeck
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Subject: RE: [exim] Bogus HELOs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakob Hirsch [mailto:jh@plonk.de]

> 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 treat it as meaningless except for SpamAssassin scoring purposes, with one
exception -- on some of the servers I manage, I will reject mail from sites
that HELO with my server's own name. This isn't very common, but anyone who
uses software that stupid deserves what they get.


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