>I believe the only check that for instance sendmail could do, is to 
>check if a lookup of the ip gives the hostname, and if the hostname
>lookup doesnt give the IP, then it can block the message. But in
>real life, there are so many situations where this is not the case,
>that blocking that scenario would block way too much legitimate email.

I wonder how it happened actually. Only way would be that the machine
with 216.139.180.4 connected to your mail server and started the
dialog with HELO and your own mailserver name.

Now I see no reason why in real life one should accept such case. I'd
say that in real life I only accept connection from machine with valid
DNS and reverse DNS.

Olivier


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