Re: ipw2100 wireless driver

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 20:17:48 EST


On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 00:56 +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> Ok, thanks for the warning. Is there any reason why you should
> be trying to look up postmaster@ from the sender domain upon
> RCPT TO?

Part of standard verification of sender addresses. You're being offered
an email.... if you can't send a bounce to the address it claims to come
from, or if you can't send a mail to postmaster at the same domain, then
the chances that the mail you're being offered is a fake are high enough
to warrant rejecting it.

Results are cached for a period of time -- the _first_ rejection should
have been more explicit than 'result of earlier verification reused' --
it should have actually given you the results of trying to send that
mail to postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

rcpt to:<postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
553 5.3.0 <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... No such user

--
dwmw2


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