Author: Bas Rijniersce Date: To: sharun CC: Suresh Ramasubramanian, exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] A lot of too many unrecognized commands in the log
Quoting sharun@???:
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > On Monday, November 25, 2002 6:06 PM [GMT+0530=IST],
> > sharun@??? <sharun@???> wrote:
> >
> > > Typical SPAMware: client that does not analyze output from server.
> >
> > Actually those IPs look a lot like open proxies (socks, http-connect
> > etc).
>
> Yep, or spamware equiped host.
>
> > When exim gets a stream of junk like HTTP headers passed to it from the
> > proxy (before the smtp commands for spam are passed through it) it
> > throws this error.
>
> Yes, all of those host MUST have another errors, comes before.
But as I wrote in my original mail, if I telnet <host> 25 to the machine it
turns out the be a valid SMTP server. If it was a proxy used for SPAM'ing, I
would see somethingdiffernet I guess
