[Gross] Patch to Greylist Bad Helo

Eino Tuominen eino at utu.fi
Tue Oct 21 12:22:54 EEST 2008


Jeff Chan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   For these few days, I went over the top and ran an experiement to
> greylist senders with bad helo strings using grossd. I did this
> because I found many obvious spams slipped through the RBLs undetected
> (as trusted). Those were the ones with bad helo strings, either with
> non-ascii characters, illegal domain name characters, non-fully
> qualified hostnames, or with IP addresses whether bracketed or not.

Hi Jeff,

Sorry for a very late response...

I have now incorporated your piece of code in the new check_helo.c in 
svn version.

This will be relased in version 1.1, which I plan to release next (with 
the 1.0.2 patch release).

-- 
   Eino Tuominen



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