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Re: [milter-greylist] Invalid helo strings check support?.

2007-06-20 by Matthias Scheler

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 06:50:12AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > > racl blacklist helo /domain\.com/ msg "go away!" 
> > But isn't it manually adjustable blacklist? And fighting manually 
> > against spammers seems mission impossible?
> 
> You can't fight on the HELO string, as the spammer can send whatever he
> wants. HELO filtering is only going to help in dealing with very special
> situations IMO.

But it works. I use "milter-regex" for this purpose and it rejected
831 SMTP connections (on a low traffic mail server) which used
"HELO localhost" in the last 24 hours.

	Kind regards

-- 
Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/

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