[Pkg-exim4-users] Use of primary_hostname with visiblename

[Magnus Holmgren]

On Thursday 19 October 2006 06:22, Ross Boylan took the opportunity to say:
> In an effort to fight spam, I reject messages when
>   verify = helo
> fails, which I believe would happen in the previous scenario.

No, verify = helo checks that the HELO name resolves to the remote IP address 
*or* the IP address reverse-resolves to the HELO name (or if the HELO name is 
an IP literal, that it matches the remote address). So verify = helo is sane. 
(Unfortunately some big players, like Hotmail, use HELO names that fail this 
test.)

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Magnus Holmgren        holmgren at lysator.liu.se
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