On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Devin Carraway wrote:
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> This is only lightly tested, but AFAIK it should be safe in principle.
I'd like to hear how it works over a few weeks or so. I fear that
some "real" SMTP clients send the HELO as soon as they are
connected.
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Devin Carraway wrote:
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> Here's a patch to SMTP.pm to add hooks for HELO and EHLO, and a plugin
> to use them.
Nice idea, thanks.
I'll put it in the next release with the recent stuff Matt has sent.
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ps. very funny DENY message. :^)
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Speaking of direct-to-MX spam, both AOL and Yahoo are large companies
with whole walls-full of servers devoted to mail delivery. None of them
announce themselves with "HELO yahoo.com" or "HELO aol.com." Spammers
certainly do, though.
Here's a patch to SMTP.pm to add hooks for HELO and EHLO, and
I've been noticing an escalation over the past several months in
direct-to-MX spam from agents using total pipelining -- that is, blowing
everything from HELO to . into their end of the socket as soon as they
finish connecting, without waiting for any server responses. A side
effect of this is tha
