[Mimedefang] filter_recipient tempfail, message size reported by sendmail

Chris Myers chris at by-design.net
Sun Nov 16 16:17:13 EST 2003


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at sewingwitch.com>
To: "MIMEDefang" <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 11:13 AM
Subject: [Mimedefang] filter_recipient tempfail, message size reported by
sendmail


> I'm using the simple greylisting code posted to the list from
> filter_recipient. My maillogs show such messages with a "size=" value even
> though the tempfail should have been done before the DATA phase. What's
> going on here? Why does sendmail read 150k instead of dropping the
> connection? Or does it proceed to accept a DATA command from the client
> anyway? (It looks like these are all viruses.)

There is an ESMTP option to the MAIL FROM: command that specifies the
message size.  Sendmail is reporting that value... It has not accepted the
message contrary to MIMEDefang's commands.

Chris Myers
Networks By Design




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