[Mimedefang] Testing HELO

Joseph Brennan brennan at columbia.edu
Tue Oct 14 10:10:02 EDT 2003


--On Tuesday, October 14, 2003 09:31 -0400 "Cormack, Ken" 
<kcormack at acs.roadway.com> wrote:

> A gateway machine with both an internal and external interface, may be
> greating you with it's internal address.  The admin of that system would
> need to correct, but from your prespective it might be trying to send
> valid mail.


Right, but it seems to be a common configuration error, too common
to be useful as a test for deliberate forgery.  Disappointing.  I
thought it might call out fakers nicely.

Joseph Brennan         Columbia University in the City of New York
Academic Technologies Group                   brennan at columbia.edu





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