On 16 Dec 2002 michael@??? wrote:
> the following trivial patch allows to configure the maximum number of
> unrecognised SMTP commands. I don't know why 5 was used as default.
To allow humans who are testing SMTP connections manually to make a few
typos.
> To me, it seems as if a lower value might keep more spam away.
Do spammers send unrecognized commands? I don't see why they would. I
don't think changing this will make any difference to spam. The check
was implemented to alleviate the problems caused by some insecure web
features.
But as you say, it is a trivial patch, and if people want to change this
number, who am I to stop them?
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