> > Bernd Wurst <[email protected]> writes:
> > > Am Mittwoch 03 März 2010 22:28:04 schrieb Nathan Eady:
> > >>  * HELO names that don't share at least the top couple of
> > >>    levels with the actual FQDN are blocked (so, for instance,
> > >>    if the HELO name is hotmail.com, it would match if the
> > >>    sending host's PTR record says out2.mail.hotmail.com
> > >>    but not if it says cpe-24-210-138-71.woh.res.rr.com.
> > > 
> > > This must be modified:
> > > If the HELO name resolves to the connected IP-address, tis check
> > > must be omitted.

> Am Dienstag 09 März 2010 21:15:49 schrieb Nathan Eady:
> > I can live with that.  (Arguably, the wording above could even be
> > taken to imply that, since a full match is "at least" as good as a
> > partial match.)

On 10.03.10 07:58, Bernd Wurst wrote:
> No, it's the other way round.

afaics, he meant just that.

> The above metioned check would do a reverse lookup of the connected IP
> address and then match the resulting host name against the HELO name.
> 
> What I said is to resolve the HELO name and omit this check if this
> matches the connected IP address.

note that this has two sides: spammers can create domain, point it to _any_
IP address and use it in HELO.

otoh, I don't think they would want to to that... does anyone has different
idea?

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