Quoting Markus Stumpf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:33:49PM -0700, Jon Rust wrote:
> > Must be a spam house, or MS software is really just THAT broken. :-)
>
> I have sometimes more than 100000 tries a day from one host because of
> temp rejects for stray newlines.
> I usually place those in my local RBL for a permanent reject.
...
> P.P.S. Not accepting stray newlines is IMHO good for SPAM protection *smile*
> Most of the servers that get rejected this way are relay open ;-)
> The above smtp01.sohu.com:202.106.185.36 is relay open, too.
> 452 additional rejects within the last 20hs *smile*
Interesting, yes. Well, I got tired long ago of that nonsense, so I
changed the error code for the stray newline to 551, in qmail-smtpd.c.
Suggested by someone else (forgot who, sorry), and wondered why I
hadn't thought of it myself sooner!
Aaron
