Re: [Exim] bsmtp, abnormal termination, return value

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On 2001-12-13 at 09:57 +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> This is intentional. It is a defence against a security problem in
> certain other software which might be exploited to access SMTP servers
> that are not normally accessible. The effect is to send a lot of junk
> commands before real SMTP commands. I don't want to give more detail
> because I don't know what the publicity status of this problem is.

It went to BugTraq. Therefore almost every script-kiddie on the planet
knows about it, if they can be bothered to read those posts which don't
contain live exploits. ;^)
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