[Mimedefang] filter-relay, rejection on bogus helo

Joseph Brennan brennan at columbia.edu
Thu Jan 8 15:33:52 EST 2004


> You get a lot of mail from local ip address that are spam?

Sure.  Most of it is forwarded via other mail servers on campus.


> I just exclude authenticatd users. Then it doesn't matter where my user's
> are sending from, or what their helo string is. I also exclude local users
> before I do my bogus helo checking.

If the sender doesn't authenticate, we don't know where the mail
originated, so we need to check it.


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




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