Something strange...

[carolina@riu.edu.ar]

We have implemented some filters avoiding the third-party-relay and
the spam, looking at the logs we find that  sombody try to send a
message to a not allowed address and the Zmailer answered well but...
LOOK what happend then:

23665r  MAIL From:<hotstuff@earthlink.net>
23665   -- policy result=0, msg: <NONE!>
23665w  250 2.1.0 Sender syntax Ok
23665r  RCPT To:<fruittoot2@aol.com>
23665   -- policy result=-1, msg: <NONE!>
23665w  553 5.7.1 Policy rejection on the target address
23665r  DATA
23665w  503 5.5.2 Waiting for RCPT command
******************************************* that's OK, but....
23665r  To: hedgehog@yahoo.com
23665w  550 5.5.2 Unknown command 'To: hedgehog@yahoo.com'
*********************************************************
23665#  -- pipeline input exists 464 bytes
23665r  Date: Mon, 15 Jun 98 23:30:45 EST
23665w  550 5.5.2 Unknown command 'Date: Mon, 15 Jun 98 23:30:45 EST'
********************************************************************
23665#  -- pipeline input exists 430 bytes
23665r  From: hotstuff@earthlink.net
23665w  550 5.5.2 Unknown command 'From: hotstuff@earthlink.net'
****************************************************************
...
23665#  -- pipeline input exists 2 bytes
23665r  .
23665w  550 5.5.2 Unknown command '.'
23665r  RSET
23665w  250 2.0.0 Ok
23665r  QUIT


Don't you think that it would be better to reject the connection before?
Sombody  could send a lot of lines keeping busy the server, lowing it 
performance.





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