Hi.

Am Sonntag, 11. November 2007 schrieb niclas:
> > If Sam decides that his mail host should not be bugged by poor
> > setups, it's his choice.
> of course it his "his choice". i might as well demand STARTTLS or use
> port 12345 for mail (and expect anyone to guess...) that's also my
> choice. i just won't have any advantage in that except that i bug people
> like a dogmatist.
> sam does not have any advantage with his setup. 

In case of HELO-checks: You get rid of tons of spam by loosing just a hand 
full of regular mail (and that does not get bitbucketed but rejected without 
ressource consumption).


> he just doesn't receive
> mails from people who probably don't have any influence on their
> provider's smarthost.

Oh, customers normally do have a really great influence about companies they 
pay fees to.


> > For me, I use BOFHCHECKHELO for all hosts that are in any used RBL (and
> > it fights MANY spam mails without cpu-intensive spam checkers).
> i don't see a connection between a blacklist entry and the HELO string.
> if they are blacklistet anyway, why do you check the HELO string at all?

I did not say that I blacklist hosts on RBLs.
I said, I want hosts on RBLs to behave correctly. I don't trust RBLs 
ultimately, so my setup allows (nearly) *anyone* in this world to send mail 
to me *if* he behaves correctly.


> so, i can conclude:
> as BOFHCHECKHELO is 1 per default, courier-mta is not an RFC-compliant
> mail-server. now that's great news. :(

An administrator is free to look at all options of his software and change it 
to his preferences before he sets it up in the real internet.

In fact, I think an administrator really should know what he's doing and what 
his settings do.

cu, Bernd

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