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authorJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2016-01-12 17:52:30 +0000
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2016-01-12 17:52:30 +0000
commit731c6a90439a22e26418f75ce9207a0c8ab112dc (patch)
tree74e348cd4a08515500856b3086cb2987c442ed70 /doc
parent9dc2b215e83a63efa242f6acd3ab7af8b608e5a1 (diff)
Docs: add note on HELO rejections, and add requirment on good HELO in
the example configuration
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@@ -27548,6 +27548,12 @@ Note that a client may issue more than one EHLO or HELO command in an SMTP
session, and indeed is required to issue a new EHLO or HELO after successfully
setting up encryption following a STARTTLS command.
+.new
+Note also that a deny neither forces the client to go away nor means that
+mail will be refused on the connection. Consider checking for
+&$sender_helo_name$& being defined in a MAIL or RCPT ACL to do that.
+.wen
+
If the command is accepted by an &%accept%& verb that has a &%message%&
modifier, the message may not contain more than one line (it will be truncated
at the first newline and a panic logged if it does). Such a message cannot