On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 04:55, Larry Gilson wrote: > Thanks Carlo! Looks like this test would not be good for a relay that > accepts mail from MUAs. However, it would probably be good if one only > expects traffic from MTAs - like gateways.
The majority of mail comes from MUAs if you think about it. If the MUA has set a message-id that is valid in an RFC context then no MTA along the path of the message should ever tamper with it. > I am surprised to see Exchange > and GroupWise. For Exchange, the OS must not have the default suffix > configured. Misconfigurations are worth adding a point or two though. I > have always setup mailservers with a hostname of host.some.domain rather > than just host. I guess that is not common(?). > It's not necessarily a misconfiguration, unless you consider clients or servers behind NAT to be misconfiguration. Or would you prefer they all said @foo.localdomain or something similar? > Please let me know if anyone disagrees with this line of reasoning. Me! :) > Thanks again Carlo! > > --Larry -- Yorkshire Dave -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
