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Re: Exim standard mailer?

heiko@lotte.sax.de (Heiko Schlittermann)  wrote on 28.07.97 in <19970728083545.21861@lotte.sax.de>:

> On Jul 27, Soenke Lange wrote
> : I just prepare new release of smail.
> : New features


> :  - a new config variable "smtp_hello_verify" can be used to
> :    validate the HELO/EHLO hostnames, and it's on by default.
>
> Argh -- if this is the feature rejecting mail with no MX for
> the hostnames in HELO/EHLO lines?  (I read the smail list only
> sporadically.) If so, this feature should be _disabled_ by default,
> since otherwise we would produce too much grief.  If somebody
> feels faked with bad EHLO/HELO lines he can enable it, knowing what
> he's doing.

Sure sounds like a serious violation of RFC 821 to me.

> :  - SMTP envelope sender addresses (i.e. MAIL FROM arguments) are
> :    verified.
>
> same here.

Depends on what you mean by "verified". Verifying for passing some sort of  
internal administrative policy would be ok; verifying the syntax would  
probably also be ok. Anything else is at least suspicious.

Of course, administrative policy checks, by their very nature, must be  
handled very carefully.


MfG Kai


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