Thanks for the advince Chris. I appreciate it. However, I do use the -b
flag, so mail is being blocked:
@4000000039a208a80b375874.s:@4000000039a1ba8124896a9c rblsmtpd:
195.25.12.67 pid 30954: 553 Open relay problem - see
<URL:http://www.mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/nph-rss?195.25.12.67>
Must be a spam house, or MS software is really just THAT broken. :-)
jon
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 08:32:19PM -0400, Chris Johnson wrote:
>
> Whenever I see this kind of thing happen, it invariably turns out to be some
> moronic Microsoft SMTP MTA on the other end. Your example is a case in point:
>
> [cjohnson@mail cjohnson]$ telnet 195.25.12.67 25
> Trying 195.25.12.67...
> Connected to s2.gen.oleane.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220-s2.gen.oleane.net Microsoft SMTP MAIL ready at Fri, 25 Aug 2000 02:21:33 +0200
>Version: 5.5.1877.197.19
> 220 ESMTP spoken here
>
> I suspect that you're not using the -b option to rblsmtpd, which causes
> rblsmtpd to send a 553 (permanent) error code to an RBL'ed client rather than
> the default 451 (temporary). Microsoft MTAs interpret the 451's "Try again
> later" as "Try again as soon as you can, and keep trying over and over and over
> as quickly as you possibly can."
>
> If you want to shut this guy up, give rblsmtpd the -b option, or stick
> something like the following in your SMTP rules file (assuming you're using
> tcpserver):
>
> 195.25.12.67:allow,RBLSMTPD="-Buzz off, bonehead. You're bothering me."
>
> The leading '-' makes the error permanent for this particular IP address.
>
> Or, firewall his ass.
>
> Chris
