On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:52:48AM +0100, Adrian Harris wrote:
> Every day my server logs have multiple entries showing:
>
> rejected HELO from [192.147.174.218]:
> syntactically invalid argument(s): bog.lodo.exactis.com'
>
> These seem to come from various IP addresses.
>
> I presume Exim is complaining about the spurious ' on the end of
> the hostname ?
Yes, someone else who has met those idiots. *sigh* they are the ban of my life.
> BTW, emailing postmaster@??? fails due to a broken
> alias :-(
Yes, exactis is a rather broen bunch of spamers. We black holed them for
a loing while untill FT.com asked us to unblock them. they are
incompetant to the extreem.
I have put a formal request (as in lawyers and freeserve's lawyers) to
talk to them about this. Hopefully it will get fixed pretty soon.
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