[exim] tiscali.be listening? Please fix your callbacks

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: [exim] tiscali.be listening? Please fix your callbacks
[please cc me with your comments, or if you're a tiscali belgium admin,
email me offlist .. I hardly get time to read exim-users these days]

OK - so one of our users on europe.com is facing trouble sending to
tiscali.be, with an error that looks extraordinarily like a failed
callback in exim

> suresh@frodo:~ telnet vs.tiscali.be smtp
> Trying 62.235.13.102...
> Connected to vs.tiscali.be.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 ESMTP mail-in.tiscali.be. NO UBE/UCE tolerated.
> ehlo frodo.hserus.net
> 250-mail-in.tiscali.be Hello frodo.hserus.net [204.74.68.40]
> 250-SIZE 10485760
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250 HELP
> mail from: <xxx.yyy@???>
> 250 OK
> rcpt to: <aaa.bbb@???>
> 550-Verification failed for <xxx.yyy@???>
> 550-Unrouteable address
> 550 Sender verify failed
> rset
> 250 Reset OK
> quit
> 221 mail-in.tiscali.be closing connection
> Connection closed by foreign host.



Sheesh. I just did another test now and chanced to be looking at my
mail logs, on the machine I was sending from

1. Their callback / sender verification is connecting to my box
frodo.hserus.net from which I initiated the test, and trying to verify
the sender. Trouble is, frodo is NOT an MX for europe.com, so these
people shouldnt be doing callbacks to the sending server anyway

2. Their callback script has a typo in it - it is issuing "quitr"
instead of the ESMTP QUIT verb

2005-03-17 21:44:36 H=mail-in5.tiscali.be (mail-in.tiscali.be)
[62.235.13.184]:50620 I=[204.74.68.40]:25 F=<> rejected RCPT
<xxx.yyy@???>: Relaying Denied
2005-03-17 21:44:45 SMTP syntax error in "quitr" H=mail-in5.tiscali.be
(mail-in.tiscali.be) [62.235.13.184]:50620 I=[204.74.68.40]:25
unexpected argument data
2005-03-17 21:44:48 SMTP connection from mail-in5.tiscali.be
(mail-in.tiscali.be) [62.235.13.184]:50620 I=[204.74.68.40]:25 closed by
QUIT