Re: [Exim] SMTP protocol violation complaint -- false positi…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: David Woodhouse
CC: Exim users list
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP protocol violation complaint -- false positives.
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:

> If I enable log_selector = +smtp_protocol_error I get false positives
> when PIPELINING is enabled:
>
> 2003-12-12 13:39:56 H=(humbolt.nl.linux.org) [2002:83d3:1c30::1] F=<test1@???> temporarily rejected RCPT <dwmw2@???>: Could not complete sender verify
> 2003-12-12 13:39:56 SMTP protocol error in "DATA" H=(humbolt.nl.linux.org) [2002:83d3:1c30::1] valid RCPT command must precede DATA
>
>
> Note that since the client sent the 'RCPT TO:' and DATA' lines in a
> single group, as permitted by RFC2920, it had no way of knowing that the
> RCPT TO was going to be rejected. It is not at fault, and is behaving
> perfectly correctly.



Which release of Exim?


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