On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> RFC 2006 <http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt> indicates you are right. I
> need to do some testing. Maybe I jumped to the wrong conclusion why specifying
> "localhost" only causes problems.
reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname will catch a bare 'localhost' since it has
no '.', but 'localhost.' doesn't work either, since the implementation
specifically checks for '.' within the string. So it'll cause problems
here either way, but...
> Some simply set it globally and don't disable it or change the policy on
> reinjection port.
I'd say that's a mistake, and not one amavisd-new should be trying
particularly hard to avoid. On my systems, I reject any HELO coming from
the outside that looks like localhost, the box's own addresses or domain
names, the RFC 2606 reserved names, and a handful of common pseudo-TLDs,
including '.localdomain'. But it's perfectly fine to use 'localhost' over
the loopback:
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by jupiter.loonybin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3032BA2813F
for <r...@loonybin.net>; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 18:15:15 -0500 (EST)
-Rob
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