Re: mail servers

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From: Nicholas Clark
Subject: Re: mail servers
Date: 11:22 on 23 Oct 2006

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:55:47AM +0200, John Sinteur wrote:

> What really gets my goat this time around is that some of these mail  
> servers attempting to deliver these non-delivery reports are so mind- 
> boggingly stupid that:
> 
> 1) they use the A record for "niet.com" from DNS to figure out where  
> to connect to, instead of the MX record.
> 2) they think the "513 relaying denied" they receive from the machine  
> pointed to by the A record is a temporary error, and will try again  
> and again and again. As in, giving me a six digit line count when I  
> grep for this error in my daily log files.

When it dies down a bit, are you able to log the HELO strings from this
hateware, such that it can be made public and shamed by name?

Nicholas Clark

There's stuff above here

mail servers John Sinteur 06:55 on 23 Oct 2006
- Re: mail servers Nicholas Clark 11:22 on 23 Oct 2006
  - John Sinteur 12:01 on 23 Oct 2006
    - too deep to show

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