On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Margrit Lottmann wrote:
> 2002-08-01 17:25:08 SMTP call from hauptpostamt.charite.de
> [193.175.66.220] dropped: too many unrecognized commands
It means exactly what it says. In order to stop certain kinds of attack,
Exim drops a connection after more than 5 unrecognized commands.
> nevertheless the message was delivered to the receiver, but the sender
> host repeats the delivery because there wasn't a regular end of the
> connection
I don't understand that. Unless Exim received the message *before* the
unrecognized commands, in which case the sender shouldn't repeat it.
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