On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, [iso-8859-2] Barho� Martin wrote:

> If I want send message through the XMail with bad address with some
> diacritics (for eample <info@tes��.cz>) the user get no message but message
> cannot be sent. If I tried it with telnet, so after RCPT TO:<info@tes��.cz>
> the connection is lost, without no error message. So other servers don't
> know that it is bad address, but thing that it is only connection problem.

SMTP protocol RFC dictates that certain cheractes MUST NOT be included
inside the protocol command. XMail is *very very* picky about this because
this technic is used by hacker to push shell code inside possible buffer
overflow. That's why it drops the connection by leaving hackers very happy
thinking they cracked it, while XMail is still healty and running :-)



- Davide


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