On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:55:47AM +0200, John Sinteur wrote: > What really gets my goat this time around is that some of these mail > servers attempting to deliver these non-delivery reports are so mind- > boggingly stupid that: > > 1) they use the A record for "niet.com" from DNS to figure out where > to connect to, instead of the MX record. > 2) they think the "513 relaying denied" they receive from the machine > pointed to by the A record is a temporary error, and will try again > and again and again. As in, giving me a six digit line count when I > grep for this error in my daily log files.
When it dies down a bit, are you able to log the HELO strings from this hateware, such that it can be made public and shamed by name? Nicholas Clark
