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Re: Re: SPF HELO checking

2004-12-13 12:28:50
"Frank Ellermann" commented:

David wrote:

what will spf check when the helo is an ip literal ??

IPs don't have TXT records.  Result NONE.  That's one of many
small differences to lentczner-00, where you'd get an erroneous
FAIL: malformed domain.  OTOH lentczner-00 had no HELO checks.

In practice you don't accept any mail after HELO [1.2.3.4] from
6.7.8.9, or do you ?
                      Bye, Frank


There was an interesting case on spf-help on Saturday.

The message had been properly rejected because of use of an unauthorised IP
address, but I also noticed it had...

      Received: from [212.159.107.246] (helo=[192.168.0.4])

I would have expected the message to have been failed for this address
discrepency alone, before even consulting the SPF record.  Am I too strict?

Chris Haynes




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