From Bill Cole, received 9/10/02, 12:19 pm -0400 (GMT): > I accept some blame for this, as I screamed at Vlad publicly on > this list back around 1997 about a brief period where SIMS was > trying to validate HELO. > > It might be a very good idea for SIMS to modify that behavior a > bit, and instead of trying to fully validate the HELO argument, > just chuck out the obviously bogus case of using the server's own > name or anything routed to error.
That would be an excellent mechanism, quite a lot of the spam hitting traps here gave the HELO using the destination domain's MX, many of the Nigerian 419s do too. If there was actually a mechanism to specify bogus HELOs to ban that would be great as so much spam uses things like "HELO hotmail.com" and "HELO yahoo.com" which are always bogus. But I don't see this (or any other feature) being added to a future version of SIMS because, I hope I'm mistaken but I don't think there will be any further version of SIMS. I imagine SIMS development has ended. -- Steve Linford Ultradesign Xtreme Network http://www.uxn.com ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
