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base.m4: More subtle handling of HELO greetings.
authorMark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:35:04 +0000 (15:35 +0000)
committerMark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:35:04 +0000 (15:35 +0000)
commitfe8f2338460a4c038aec0b55a69b2421622159cc
treec25fa4b59346368b230a1595f4dc28ce83e3758a
parentc1709c7f1a3c8dbc55ea5e2501e4433b5fea05a6
base.m4: More subtle handling of HELO greetings.

Rather than rejecting incorrect HELO greetings, we make two adjustments:

  * There's now an auxiliary list, `helo.conf', of manually provided
    exceptions, for well-known and basically honest hosts which are just
    misconfigured.

  * A failure to provide a correct HELO greeting now results in a
    BADHELO warning header rather than an immediate rejection.
    SpamAssassin has been configured to notice these headers and assign
    points for them, because they do seem to be a good indicator of
    spamminess.
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