Jo Rhett wrote:
Do you know why the SMTP authenticating server was forging the
HELO name? Normal mail clients will give their IP address,
right? And the "may be forged" only appears if they gave a full
name and resolution succeeded *and* none of the addresses returned
matched the helo name.
On Dec 5, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Kelson wrote:
Actually, there are a number of SMTP clients that will use the
local system's hostname (either partial or FQDN) as the HELO
string. Outlook Express, Opera, and KMail are examples.
Eudora has an annoying habit of using the local hostname plus the
domain name of the email address, which often results in a
nonexistent FQDN.
Heh, got me on assumptions. I use 7 different mail clients and have
never seen this problem with my mail but you've just named 4 clients
I don't use :-)
FYI partial names are fine by my reading of the sendmail code.
"forged" only appears when a FQDN is provided but isn't valid.
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Jo Rhett
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