RE: [Exim] HTTP commands

On 15 March 2004 11:08, Tony Finch <dot@???> wrote:

> > Has anyone else seen entries in their logs like this:
> >
> > SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too
> > soon): rejected "POST / HTTP/1.0"
> >
> > Someone has got very confused :)
>
> It's spammers using open proxies to send email using HTTP POST, hoping
> that the HTTP request header will be ignored by the target MTA. Might
> be a good idea to drop connections whose first command is POST...

Exim seems to reject them anyway, so I shall just ignore them.

Cheers,
John