Ooops. That rule should of course be:

header FAKE_HELO_YAHOO          
eval:check_for_rdns_helo_mismatch("yahoo\.com","yahoo\.com")
describe FAKE_HELO_YAHOO        Host HELO did not match rDNS: yahoo.com

BTW This is stock SA v2.63

On Thu, 20 May 2004, Mark Powell wrote:

> Hi,
>   Having problems with messages from yahoo.fr users getting points for
> FAKE_YAHOO_HELO:
>
> Received: from [216.136.131.55] (HELO web11005.mail.yahoo.com) 
> (216.136.131.55)
>   by pan.salford.ac.uk (qpsmtpd/0.27-dev) with SMTP; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 
> 02:36:19 +0100
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: from [24.215.150.113] by web11005.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 30 
> Apr 2004 03:36:08 CEST
> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 03:36:08 +0200 (CEST)
> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?eva=20perrotta?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Probable_SPAM: App. in Paris
> To: xxx
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> The host is sending us HELO web11005.mail.yahoo.com from 216.136.131.55. A
> rdns lookup on that address:
>
> # nslookup 216.136.131.55
> Server:  ...
> Address:  ...
>
> Name:    web11005.mail.yahoo.com
> Address:  216.136.131.55
>
> Seems like a false positive to me. I've had to turn this rule off to stop
> annoying our users.
>   Cheers.
>
>

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