Re: [Exim] People thinking port 25 is a web server

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Συντάκτης: Frank S. Bernhardt
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Αντικείμενο: Re: [Exim] People thinking port 25 is a web server
Philip.

You did such a great job on EXIM, why don't you right a web server
option to run as part of EXIM? ;-)

Did you see the mention EXIM got in the Feb. 2003 issue of Linux Journal
(U.S. issue) page 55 "Understanding and Replacing Microsoft Exchange"?

How's the book coming?

Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, William Thompson wrote:
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>>Is there an easy way to immediately drop people from doing this:
>>2003-03-08 07:33:53 SMTP syntax error in "POST / HTTP/1.0" H=[199.243.131.42]: unrecognized command
>>2003-03-08 07:33:53 SMTP syntax error in "Via: 1.0 TANGO" H=[199.243.131.42]: unrecognized command
>>2003-03-08 07:33:53 SMTP syntax error in "Host: 216.98.66.34:25" H=[199.243.131.42]: unrecognized command
>>2003-03-08 07:33:53 SMTP syntax error in "Content-length: 8253" H=[199.243.131.42]: unrecognized command
>>2003-03-08 07:33:53 SMTP syntax error in "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" H=[199.243.131.42]: unrecognized command
>>2003-03-08 07:33:53 SMTP syntax error in "Connection: Keep-Alive" H=[199.243.131.42]: unrecognized command
>>2003-03-08 07:33:53 SMTP call from [199.243.131.42] dropped: too many unrecognized commands
>>
>>I was thinking of modifying the smtp commands to add POST as a "quit" option
>>that ignores parameters
>>
>>I'm currently using exim 3.35. I'd like to know if it's doable at all (any
>>version upto and including the latest)
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> In the next release (4.14, due out on Wednesday), you can set what you
> want for "too many" via an option called smtp_max_unknown_commands. The
> default is now 3.
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> Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

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