denying email from your own domain but external IP's?

[Kai Schaetzl]

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Ugo Bellavance wrote on         Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:23:04 -0400:

> http://www.cs.niu.edu/~rickert/cf/bad-ehlo.html 
>  
> We just installed this test at a site that was getting hammered with 
> spam and viruses from email addresses pretending to be from their 
> domain. It stopped these attacks cold.

This is a great patch I use since long, but it won't help against forged 
email addresses.

Kai

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