[Mimedefang] Re: VERY Newbie Question

Jeff Rife mimedefang at nabs.net
Fri Oct 29 22:24:03 EDT 2004


On 29 Oct 2004 at 15:01, David F. Skoll wrote:

> >         elsif ($ip ne $helo){
> >                 return ('REJECT', "You are not who you say you are.")
> >         }
> 
> That will reject 99.999% of all your e-mail.  Most machines use the
> machine name in HELO, not an IP address, so...

...and the RFC pretty clearly says that an IP address should *never* be 
used as the argument to HELO, so that rule *should* reject all e-mail.




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