[Mimedefang] Re: VERY Newbie Question

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Jeff Rife wrote:

> 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.

Umm... reread his code.

Regards,

David.