Re: Blocking bad HELO ( and Netsky virus )

Alex wrote regarding 'Re: Blocking bad HELO ( and Netsky virus )' on Wed, Oct 20 at 08:46:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:57:11AM -0500, Danny Sauer wrote:
>
> > > --main.cf---
> > > smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
> > > ..
> > > check_helo_access hash:/etc/postfix/tables/smtp_helo_blacklist
> > > ..
>
> > Just out of curiosity, is there any reason to put that in the
> > smtpd_recipient_restrictions instead of smtpd_helo_restrictions?
>
> Having all restrictions in the same place makes it easy to see in
> what order they will be executed. Also, it makes it more easy to
> whitelist.
>
> Suppose you'd whitelist some server in smtpd_recipient_restrictions,
> you'd have to do the same in smtpd_helo_restrictions or else the
> whitelist entry would never take effect.
>
> HTH

T does indeed H. I normally just list the restrictions in order of
evaluation in main.cf, for just that reason. I was hoping I wasn't missing
some highly technical reason, though. :)

--Danny