[Mimedefang] Rejecting forged senders - comments?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Jan-Pieter Cornet wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 01:44:22AM -0700, John Rudd wrote:
>> But:
>> 1) to reject based on the content of the HELO string is an RFC violation
>
> This is a blatant and oft-repeated lie. Section 4.1.4 in RFC2821 contains
> very specific wording. Only an IP mismatch is disallowed as a reason for
> rejection. For any other violation, even if it's a local policy violation,
> you are allowed to reject the HELO/EHLO argument.

RFC2821 speaks about EHLO, what about HELO?

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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