Re: What if EHLO/HELO check fails?

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:42:50PM -0400, Raymond S Brand wrote:
> 
> MTA operators will do whatever they want, anyway.
> 
> Some will terminate the connection as forged.
> Some will assume that the message is more likely to be SPAM
> 	and do other (content?) checks.
> Some will note the failure in a (local) X-Header.
> Some will only log the failure.
> Some may tarpit the connection.
> 
> The possibilities are almost endless.
> 


Raymond, please, stop this "They'll do whatever they want, anyway"
point of view. This is extremely counterproductive.

If we use this point of view, we can stop our work right now.

At least for those who will not do whatever they want we'll have to 
describe a guideline, including headers, procedures etc. Everything 
without this is crap.


Hadmut