>>
>>
>> Sam Clippinger wrote:
>>  
>>> That's very strange -- I'm having a hard time imagining any way 
>>> spamdyke could be injecting "QUIT" into a message like that.  The 
>>> only time spamdyke injects "QUIT" at all is when a connection times 
>>> out, but then it sends a "." first to end the message.  The "QUIT" 
>>> should be interpreted as an SMTP command.
>>>
>>> Do your logs show timeouts that correspond with these messages?  Are 
>>> any other parts of the message corrupted (e.g. the headers)?
>>>
>>> -- Sam Clippinger
>>>
>>>       
>> I will try to go back through my logs and correlate the occurrences 
>> with a timeout. The headers do appear to be incorrect as well, 
>> though, the  From address in the header shows up as 
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -John
>>

OK, after enabling full logging and waiting for someone to report the 
problem again, I now have a little more insight into this problem. Here 
is the full log of the email transaction:

This section is the transcript from my secondary mail server, which 
receives the message first:


06/04/2008 09:45:30 STARTED: VERSION = 3.1.2, PID = 587
06/04/2008 09:45:30 LEGEND: To remote host = <<< ; to child process = 
 >>> ; blocked by filter = <XX
06/04/2008 09:45:30 LEGEND: From filter to remote host = <FF ; from 
filter to child process = FF>

<<<  06/04/2008 09:45:30
220 mail2.sts-llc.net ESMTP

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:45:30
EHLO imo-d21.mx.aol.com

<<<  06/04/2008 09:45:30
250-mail2.sts-llc.net
250-PIPELINING
250 8BITMIME

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:45:31
MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

<<<  06/04/2008 09:45:31
250 ok

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:45:31
RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

<FF  06/04/2008 09:45:31
421 Your address has been graylisted. Try again later.

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:45:31
RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

<FF  06/04/2008 09:45:31
421 Your address has been graylisted. Try again later.

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:45:31
RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

<<<  06/04/2008 09:45:31
250 ok

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:45:31
RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

<<<  06/04/2008 09:45:31
250 ok

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:45:31
RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

<<<  06/04/2008 09:45:31
250 ok

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:45:31
DATA

<<<  06/04/2008 09:45:31
354 go ahead

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:45:31
QUIT

FF> 06/04/2008 09:46:32
.
QUIT

<FF  06/04/2008 09:46:32
421 Timeout. Talk faster next time.

<XX  06/04/2008 09:46:32
250 ok 1212590792 qp 589
221 mail2.sts-llc.net

06/04/2008 09:46:32 CLOSED

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This messages comes into my secondary server, which then gets forwarded 
to a couple users on my primary server, but this is the message 
transcript from that machine for one of those users:


06/04/2008 09:46:32 STARTED: VERSION = 3.1.8+TLS, PID = 20953
06/04/2008 09:46:32 LEGEND: To remote host = <<< ; to child process = 
 >>> ; blocked by filter = <XX
06/04/2008 09:46:32 LEGEND: From filter to remote host = <FF ; from 
filter to child process = FF>

<<<  06/04/2008 09:46:32
220 stscore01.sts-llc.net ESMTP

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:46:32
HELO mail2.sts-llc.net

<<<  06/04/2008 09:46:32
250 stscore01.sts-llc.net

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:46:32
MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

<<<  06/04/2008 09:46:32
250 ok

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:46:32
RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

<<<  06/04/2008 09:46:32
250 ok

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:46:32
DATA

<<<  06/04/2008 09:46:32
354 go ahead

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:46:32
Received: (qmail 589 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2008 14:45:31 -0000
Received: from imo-d21.mx.aol.com (205.188.144.207)
  by mail2.sts-llc.net with SMTP; 4 Jun 2008 14:45:31 -0000
QUIT
.

<<<  06/04/2008 09:46:32
250 ok 1212590792 qp 20959

 >>>  06/04/2008 09:46:32
QUIT

<<<  06/04/2008 09:46:32
221 stscore01.sts-llc.net

06/04/2008 09:46:32 CLOSED
D

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And here is the resulting email message in their inbox:

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: recipient list not shown: ;
Sent: Jun 4, 2008 09:46
Subject: 

QUIT




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