Re: [exim] no ehlo possible when sender IP has no hostname

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Author: Fred Viles
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] no ehlo possible when sender IP has no hostname
On 24 Jul 2005 at 19:44, John Horne wrote about
    "Re: [exim] no ehlo possible when se":


| 
| On Sun, July 24, 2005 18:27, Fred Viles said:
| >
| >   deny    message = Spoofed server name detected
| >     !hosts         = +relay_from_hosts
| >     !authenticated = *
| >     condition      = ${if or { \
| >                 {match {${lc:$sender_helo_name}} {epitools\.com}} \
| >                 {match {${lc:$sender_helo_name}} {episupport\.com}} \
| >                 {match {${lc:$sender_helo_name}} {embeddedperformance\.com}} \
| >
| No, this too is not correct. The 'match' expands the second argument and
| then treats it as a regular expression. From the manual:

|...

Thanks, good catch, it should have been \\. That bug has been in my
config since the early days, but in this case I doubt it's ever
caused a false rejection.

(off to check for any other similar cases...)

- Fred