Re: patch to force helo or ehlo before any smtp command

Aiko Barz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.ldap
Organization deepcode
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:12:11PM +0200, Jimmy Spam wrote:
> what is the advantage of force ehlo? Maybe it can help to block some spam
> software?

Section: 4.1.1.1 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html)
"In any event, a client MUST issue HELO or EHLO before starting a mail
transaction."

You may block broken spammer software at a very early stage.

So long,
  Aiko
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