> On Feb 5, 2017, at 4:44 PM, James <postfix_trac...@trackivity.com> wrote:
>
> The original source of my confusion was assuming that all information
> received with the HELO or EHLO command would be processed by the
> smtpd_helo_restrictions.
>
> I understand now that that the text under
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_helo_restrictions includes the
> following implicit and unwritten statement:
>
> These restrictions are not applied to the address literal information
> received with the HELO or EHLO command.
>
> Thus, I was indeed trying to do something unsupported.
No, all I was saying was that address literals were not currently
processed in the manner you expected. Wietse's patch implements
the (inadvertently) missing feature.
--
Viktor.
