Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Soenke Lange wrote:
>
> : > No, I'm just telling them that the mail originated in my isp's domain.
> : > The HELO supposedly tells them who I am.
> : >
> : Yes! ... HELO/EHLO your.domain.org
> : then smail (with some switches on) will test if the name and the IP# of the
> : originating host correspond, else smail will not accept mail from this
> : host. Other MTA will differ .. but with this method most spams will not find
> : the way to you...
> : Still there are lots of misconfigured Mail server, but if more and more
> : people using smail or some other strong spam protection, they will convert
> : there configs (imho).
>
> Well, OK, you might call them misconfigured. But read this quote from
> rfc1985: "[...] there is no documented stipulation for checking the
> authenticity of the remote host name, as given in the HELO or EHLO command."
[cringe]
My sincere apologies for an absolutely STUPID question, But I have
absolutely NO idea.....
Where can I get/read/find/download/whatever the RFC's?
[uncringe]
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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