[Mimedefang] Bad RCPT Throttle in the Real World

Kevin A. McGrail kmcgrail at pccc.com
Fri Aug 6 10:26:11 EDT 2004


Before I jump on that bandwagon, I'd like to know if it causes any legit
MTAs to fall over dead as well.

> > 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?



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