Re: [Exim] I found in my log:

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: Leonardo Boselli, exim-users, Giuliano Gavazzi
Subject: Re: [Exim] I found in my log:
eximlists@??? (Giuliano Gavazzi) writes:
> At 21:32 +0100 2002/12/09, Leonardo Boselli wrote:
>> I found in my log thsi line (and next, the helo one)
>> 2002-12-09 21:30:10 rejected EHLO from [218.108.22.226]:
>> syntactically invalid argument(s): n106\241\357\241\357\241\357
>>
>> What am i rejecting ?
>>
>
> in unicode that is a sequence of inverted excl. marks and i umlaut:
> ¡ï¡ï¡ï (if you can see it).
>
> If you want to see who they are just set helo_accept_junk or
> helo_allow_chars (if you can..), but why not just let them rot.


Given that the IP above belongs in APNIC land (china, at a guess - not
querying apnic now as am offline), that is quite likely to be some jackass
admin who has given a big5 charset (and unqualified) name to his machine.

If you don't normally get mail from China, this is as likely as not spam.

    srs