well, both of those imail systems are diff versions, apparently steve runs imail version 6, bad, bad, you need to upgrade steve, the email.abc.net has imail version 7.05.
don > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cybertime Hostmaster > >Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 12:13 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [IMGate] Re: Is this a dictionary attack > > > > > > > >> i'm with the other guy on this one, that log looked like it > >wasnt him, it > >> was the OTHER system rejecting the mail, in which case, there is > >absolutely > >> nothing you can do. no matter what you change on your system it wont > >affect > >> the other guy rejecting a null sender. > >> > >> >>>>>>> In: 220 X1 NT-ESMTP Server email.abc.net (IMail 7.05 356740-2) > >> >>>>>>> Out: EHLO mgw1.geeksnet.com > >> >>>>>>> In: 250-email.abc.net says hello > >> > >> to me that looks like the EHLO is going out, from stevers > >geeksnet system > >to > >> email.abc email.abc is the one rejecting null sender not > >geeknet. unless i > >> just havent had enuf cofee today. > > > >Yes, I have always thought that. > > > >%host email.abc.net > >Host not found. > >%host abc.net > >abc.net has address 216.201.96.72 > >abc.net mail is handled (pri=0) by mailin.korax.net > >%host mail.abc.net > >mail.abc.net is a nickname for mail.korax.net > >mail.korax.net has address 216.201.96.57 > > > >Telnet to 25 on mail.abc.net is refused. > > > >Telnet to 25 on mailin.korax.net gets: > >220 mailhub.korax.net ESMTP Postfix > > > >%host Computer-Geeks.com > >Computer-Geeks.com mail is handled (pri=10) by mgw1.geeksnet.com > >Computer-Geeks.com mail is handled (pri=20) by mail.Computer-Geeks.com > >%host mail.Computer-Geeks.com > >mail.Computer-Geeks.com has address 208.34.237.92 > >%host mgw1.geeksnet.com > >mgw1.geeksnet.com has address 208.34.239.9 > > > >Some more banners: > >220 mgw1.geeksnet.com - ESMTP - Postfix - Attn: SPAMMERS will be pursued. > >220 X1 NT-ESMTP Server mail.computer-geeks.com (IMail 6.06 214419-5) > > > > > >There is no such host as email.abc.net. > > > >abc.net does use Postfix, but it is not even the same net block as > >Computer-Geeks.com. > > > >Nothing seems to match up between the banners he sent and what I can > >collect. > > > >In the end I can only guess this is some other IMail machine, > >and hope that > >he is in control of it because that is where a lot of people > >join this list > >from. > > > >With that educated guess, I am looking at this as an IMail issue on his > >internal server, and not a Postfix issue. > > > >--Eric > > > > > >
