Re: [exim] Dropping SMTP connections, client says it's sent,…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Derrick MacPherson
CC: exim-users
New-Topics: RE: [exim] Dropping SMTP connections, client says it's sent, serversays nothing.
Subject: Re: [exim] Dropping SMTP connections, client says it's sent, server saysnothing.
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Derrick MacPherson wrote:

> I'm having an issue with one person (of course it's the CEO) - he's
> using Outlook 2000 as his MUA, and somtimes he has mail that looks like
> it delivers, but in our mainlog there's no entry, the reject log has:
>
> 2006-03-23 15:47:12 SMTP call from (copper) [172.16.128.181] dropped:
> too many nonmail commands (last was "RSET")
>
>
> Any ideas on whats happening and what could be done to correct this?


1. Fix your CEO's MUA so that it doesn't send so much SMTP crap.
2. Change the value of smtp_accept_max_nonmail or smtp_accept_max_
nonmail_hosts.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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