--On 27 March 2008 20:22:52 +0000 Graeme Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:27 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: >> I'm seeing something interesting. In the HELO acl if I issue a DENY I'm >> seeing servers doing a retry of the HELO. Is this normal? > > Yes, perfectly. It's termed a "woodpecker". There are multiple records > of badly written mail applications hammering away for days until the > message times out. > > Better to reject after RCPT or DATA for some applications, as they then > go away permanently. > > Graeme Apart from anything else, you should allow people to send email to postmaster, so that if they've got a bad HELO argument then at least they can get your advice on it. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148 -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
