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

2007-06-20 by Matthias Scheler

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> What can be using HELO localhost, except a broken MTA configured as
> an open relay?

Apparently Bot Net Spam software. I can find 289 unique IP address
which got blocked because of this. And from a quick look they look
like dynamic broadband IP addresses.

	Kind regards

P.S. Blocking "HELO localhost" not the only "HELO" filter I'm using.

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

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