[Mimedefang] Bad RCPT Throttle in the Real World

Richard A Nelson cowboy at cavein.org
Thu Aug 5 20:15:44 EDT 2004


On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Lucas Albers wrote:

> Chris Myers said:
>
> > Speaking of ratware, I noticed in a posting elsewhere that Abuse.Net has
> > pointed out that really long SMTP banners literally cause some ratware to
> > fall over dead.  As an example, see the output of "telnet smtp.abuse.net
> > smtp".
>
> What's the correct way to set the smtp message for this?
> via:
> confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG with some appropriate newline linefeeds?

yes indeed... don't put newlines in the text, however - just use \n
wherever you want the newline

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