At 15:21 8/07/03 +1200, you wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Philip D'Ath wrote:
My new Sendmail greeting line. Please please let this become law.
O SmtpGreetingMessage=$j $b You are not authorised to send unsolicited
to this system. Disconnect now if this is your intention. By sending an unsolicited email you may be breaking the Crimes Act of New Zealand, and risking prosecution.
Wouldn't you have to enshrine in law that MUAs must display HELO/EHLO greetings to users?
Normally, nobody would see the greeting.
Normally nobody reads the fineprint in contracts or EULA's but it's still there :) Which "users" are you refering to anyway ? User X out on the internet sending you a message is usually going to go via their ISP's outgoing mailserver, so they're not connecting to your mailserver anyway. Only their ISP's mailserver will be connecting to your mailserver and "seeing" the HELO response. Of course many spammers go direct to MX so their software would "see" the message, not that its worth much :) Regards, Simon