Hello List

Happy New Year!

I seem to observe, that more servers have started rejecting email
because of 'helo / hostname' mismatch.

If for example, you run a mailman installation with virtual domains
enabled and use SSL for the Web-Management part, you have one ip
address per domain.

sendmail or whatever MTA is used, will probably listen to all ip
addresses and pick the one belonging to the domain for email sending,
but still the hostname used in the EHLO is the one of the physical
machine and not the virtual domain.

I did a quick check of the SMTP RFCs, I could not find anything that
requires the EHLO domainnamen to match the connecting IP address.

So what is your opinion, is it legit to reject email because the ehlo
domain does not match the connection ip's PTR record?

Mit freundlichen Grüssen

-Benoît Panizzon-
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