I haven't seen much spam like that, but a lot of viruses are like that.
It certainly wouldn't be harmful to do.
Randy.
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Klint Gore
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: smtprcv detecting spam
>
>
> In a recent discussion on a different mailing list that was completely
> off topic, they said that checking the helo against the local computer
> rejected quite a bit of spam.
>
> So I'm thing about adding an option that says if the ip of the client
> isnt the server itself and it says "helo serverip" or "helo
> acceptmailfor" then respond with a "550 go away spammer".
>
> comments?
>
> klint.
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