John Peacock wrote: > Michael Holzt wrote: >> However i came to the conclusion that the Date:-Headerchecking from >> check_basicheaders is unreliable because there are other legitimate >> clients as well who lack the Date: header. Its against the standard, >> but its real life. > > We have some HP printers that have a "scan to e-mail" feature and they > chose not to send RFC compliant messages. So I targeted them to an > internal SMTP server which doesn't care (and adds one on the fly). I'm > still running check_basicheaders (and check_helofqdn too, cause I'm a > BOFH) on our production servers and have yet to hear of a legit message > being blocked. > > I dealt with the one office that uses lookOut (I inherited them and I > don't support them worth a damn), by having the outbound server run in > "log_only" mode.
Isn't this only an issue with mail submission, rather than receiving mail? Wouldn't it be appropriate to just suspend the header checks (or whatever) if the user auth'd (and is therefore submitting mail?) Am I missing something?
