Must be my good luck...only about 6.5% of the HELO's that my server sees fail the 
test, and virtually all of those are zombie pc's
running some spamware virus spewing crap that -should- fail that test and exactly for 
that reason :)  The tiny tiny handful that
fail I can fix with a phone call.

Rubs rabbits foot for more luck :)

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Martin Schaible
To: Jeff Lancton
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] HELO/EHLO Test


Hi Jeff,

After a day i switched off the helo/ehlo tests. It's do dangerous at all.

A lot of mail servers in the wild are not able to pass this test.



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Am Dienstag, 18. Mai 2004 um 20:23 schrieben Sie:

> Hello,

> I'm running 8.05 HF2, and have my anti-spam set to insert
> x-headers, and then forward any messages containing the x-headers to my
> mailbox, where an Outlook rule moves them to a Possible Spam folder.

> Recently I've been getting a lot of legitimate mail being caught
> and forwarded because of the HELO/EHLO test.  The messages don't fail
> any spam tests, but the HELO/EHLO is enough to trigger the x-header.
> See the snippet from one of the headers below:

> X-IMAIL-SPAM-VALHELO: (31326488)
> X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [65.205.16.100]
> X-Spam-Tests-Failed: None [0]
> X-Note: This E-mail was sent from  ([65.205.16.100]).

> What is causing this?

> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

> Thanks,

> -Jeff


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