On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:05:41PM +1000, Nikolas Kallis wrote:
> As '37.212.64.248' for 'helo' is neither a FQDN nor an address
> literal, then is it pointless using 'reject_invalid_helo_hostname'
> with 'reject_non_fqdn_helo_host name'?
> I have never seen 'reject_invalid_helo_hostname' reject mail, but
> from what Postfix's documentation says and from the behaviour of
> 'reject_non_fqdn_helo_host name', they appear to behave the same
> when handling a malformed 'helo'.
Sorry, but allow the dumb question WHY host names are allowed to look
like IP-addresses?
What problem solves this?
Wouldn't it be enough to give them a simple alphabet like [a-zA-Z]?
Cheers, and sorry, if the question is really dumb.
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Michael P. Demelbauer
Systemadministration
WSR
Arsenal, Objekt 20
1030 Wien
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