Re: [Exim] Killing a misconfigured host.

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Killing a misconfigured host.
Adrian Harris rearranged electrons thusly:

> Every day my server logs have multiple entries showing:
> rejected HELO from [192.147.174.218]:
> syntactically invalid argument(s): bog.lodo.exactis.com'


Our logs are full enough with it - so I firewalled that ip.

> I presume Exim is complaining about the spurious ' on the end of
> the hostname ?


Yep

> What's the quickest way to kill this attempted delivery, assuming
> all the messages arise from multiple attempts to deliver the same
> message ?


Firewalling / filtering them in exim.

> BTW, emailing postmaster@??? fails due to a broken
> alias :-(
> I have emailed postmaster@???, who seem to have


Olde tyme spambags I seem to remember - search news.admin.net-abuse.email for
more ... andtake a look at http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl/candidacy.html if you
are inclined to pursue this further.

    +suresh
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