RE: Solaris / DoS / Broken bare LF mailers / thousands of qmail-smtpdqmail-queue procs

2000-07-24 Thread James Blondin
- 3. The sending IP is using a broken mailer that's generating bare LFs, and this mailer regards the resulting temporary error code generated by qmail as 'Please try again straightaway'. I'd be particularly interested to know if anyone has come across the

RE: Solaris / DoS / Broken bare LF mailers / thousands of qmail-smtpdqmail-queue procs

2000-07-24 Thread James Blondin
Dave Sill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'problem' as it relates to RFCs, not to Qmail's implementation, is probably the original question. Probably? If you don't know, why bother guessing? I answered the question I thought was asked. If the person who asked the question isn't

RE: Solaris / DoS / Broken bare LF mailers / thousands of qmail-smtpdqmail-queue procs

2000-07-24 Thread James Blondin
Dave Sill wrote: In that case, qmail is not strictly RFC822 compliant in rejecting messages with bare linefeeds. Apparently Dan felt that the effort necessary to allow messages to contain LF's was more trouble than it was worth--especially considered that 822bis prohibits bare LF's. This

RE: Solaris / DoS / Broken bare LF mailers / thousands of qmail-smtpdqmail-queue procs

2000-07-24 Thread James Blondin
Dave Sill wrote: "James Blondin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Sill wrote: In that case, qmail is not strictly RFC822 compliant in rejecting messages with bare linefeeds. Apparently Dan felt that the effort necessary to allow messages to contain LF's was more tr