Re: For those following Sender based authentication - a question

2004-11-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, at 10:08pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The HELO domain represents the mail provider used by the author of the message and thus is more closely related to the author than any other header within the message. Eh... HELO isn't even a header. It is an SMTP command

Re: For those following Sender based authentication - a question

2004-11-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
Sheesh. HELO is not a header. :-) I quote from RFC-821, Section 4.1.1, Page 19: HELLO (HELO) This command is used to identify the sender-SMTP to the receiver-SMTP. The argument field contains the host name of the sender-SMTP. The

For those following Sender based authentication - a question

2004-11-21 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Anybody agree with the following statement? The HELO domain represents the mail provider used by the author of the message and thus is more closely related to the author than any other header within the message. This is from the CSV doc to the FTC. Is is just mean, or does this seem to ignore

Re: For those following Sender based authentication - a question

2004-11-21 Thread Dan Jenkins
Jeff Macdonald wrote: Anybody agree with the following statement? The HELO domain represents the mail provider used by the author of the message and thus is more closely related to the author than any other header within the message. This is from the CSV doc to the FTC. Is is just mean, or does

Re: For those following Sender based authentication - a question

2004-11-21 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jeff Macdonald wrote: Anybody agree with the following statement? The HELO domain represents the mail provider used by the author of the message and thus is more closely related to the author than any other header within the message. This is from the CSV doc to the FTC. Is is just mean, or does

Re: For those following Sender based authentication - a question

2004-11-21 Thread Dan Jenkins
I was a bit too quick on the reply, the HELO in the mail header is from the first mail server which accepts the message. Subsequent hops don't change the initial HELO. However, I do have mail servers which have to rewrite headers and provide a specific domain in a HELO for mail to be

Re: For those following Sender based authentication - a question

2004-11-21 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:18:20 -0500, Dan Jenkins wrote: I was a bit too quick on the reply, the HELO in the mail header is from the first mail server which accepts the message. Subsequent hops don't change the initial HELO. I must re-read the RFCs. I was not under the impression this was so.