On Thursday 19 October 2006 09:47, Magnus Holmgren took the opportunity to 
say:
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 06:22, Ross Boylan took the opportunity to say:
> > In an effort to fight spam, I reject messages when
> >   verify = helo
> > fails, which I believe would happen in the previous scenario.
>
> No, verify = helo checks that the HELO name resolves to the remote IP
> address *or* the IP address reverse-resolves to the HELO name (or if the
> HELO name is an IP literal, that it matches the remote address). So verify
> = helo is sane. (Unfortunately some big players, like Hotmail, use HELO
> names that fail this test.)

Sorry, my mail client is fundamentally broken WRT finding the right list 
address to respond to.

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