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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Kelson Vibber <ke...@speed.net> on 2004/03/30 21:57:16 UTC

Re: blocking viruses (Re: Semi-OT: Viral social engineering at it's finest..)

At 11:46 AM 3/30/2004, Justin Mason wrote:
>David B Funk writes:
>>Some lame or misconfigured clients will take the DNS name from the user's 
>>address and use that for a HELO name. So I do not do that check on my MSA 
>>for our clients, but do enforce it on all our incoming MTA servers.
>
>Apple's Mail.app, for one, if I recall correctly.

Eudora as well.  (On this message you'll see "Received: from 
AVATAR.speed.net" despite the fact that such a host doesn't exist - it's 
taken avatar from my computer's local host name and speed.net from my email 
address.)

Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>