iBLJa1Gu008596: .. did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

[Peter Bonivart]

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Steve Hickel wrote:
> So what would cause this? Seems only to have started recently after
> upgrading to latest mailscanner??
>
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:35, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>
>>>iBLJa1Gu008596: machinename [10.10.8.103] did not issue
>>>MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
>>
>>You server was waiting for a command, and never got it, this usually
>>happens on dropped connexions, testing or when you just telnet to your
>>box (port 25) and then cut the connexion.

Ugo mentioned several ways of getting those logs, I get them from our
monitoring servers that connect every five minutes to see if the smtp
service is available, it drops the connection when satisfied. You can
create such a log yourself by issuing "telnet localhost 25" and typing
"quit" immediately after the MTA answers.

Ping does not connect to 53/tcp, it's a completely different mechanism.

Who is machinename [10.10.8.103]? That would be a good start.

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/Peter Bonivart

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