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Extreme spam testing

  • From: Chris Brenton
  • Date: Mon Dec 22 09:30:21 2003

Greets again all,

I noticed something kind of interesting when I made my last post to
NANOG. I can understand people wanting to do spam checking, but IMHO
this is a bit excessive and inconsiderate. 

I'm guessing njabl.org is doing this to everyone who posts to the list,
so I thought others might want to know about it in case they have not
noticed it in their own logs. BTW, if you are curious about the
"spammers_waste_oxygen" portion, that was grabbed off my SMTP banner.

Cheers,
C

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Dec 22 08:21:50 mailgate sendmail[492]: hBMDLnHS000492:
before-reporting-as-abuse-please-see-www.njabl.org [209.208.0.15] did
not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Dec 22 08:21:50 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHS000495:
ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[email protected]>, relay=rt.njabl.org
[209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <[email protected]>... Relaying
denied
Dec 22 08:21:50 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHT000495:
ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[email protected]_waste_oxygen;>,
relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.1.8
<[email protected]_waste_oxygen;>... Domain of sender address
[email protected]_waste_oxygen does not exist
Dec 22 08:21:50 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHU000495:
ruleset=check_mail,
arg1=<"[email protected]"@spammers_waste_oxygen;>,
relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.1.8
<"[email protected]"@spammers_waste_oxygen;>... Domain of
sender address [email protected]@spammers_waste_oxygen does not
exist
Dec 22 08:21:51 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHV000495:
ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<relaytestsend>, relay=rt.njabl.org
[209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.5.4 <relaytestsend>... Domain name required
for sender address relaytestsend
Dec 22 08:21:51 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHW000495:
ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[email protected]>, relay=rt.njabl.org
[209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.5.4 <[email protected]>... Real
domain name required for sender address
Dec 22 08:21:51 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHX000495:
ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[email protected]>, relay=rt.njabl.org
[209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <[email protected]>... Relaying
denied
Dec 22 08:21:51 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHY000495:
ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[email protected]>, relay=rt.njabl.org
[209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <[email protected]>... Relaying
denied
Dec 22 08:21:51 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHZ000495:
ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[email protected]>, relay=rt.njabl.org
[209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <[email protected]>... Relaying
denied
Dec 22 08:21:52 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHa000495:
ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[email protected]>, relay=rt.njabl.org
[209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <[email protected]>... Relaying
denied
Dec 22 08:21:52 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHb000495:
ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[email protected]>, relay=rt.njabl.org
[209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <[email protected]>... Relaying
denied
Dec 22 08:21:52 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHc000495:
ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[email protected]>, relay=rt.njabl.org
[209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <[email protected]>... Relaying
denied
Dec 22 08:21:52 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHd000495:
ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[email protected]>, relay=rt.njabl.org
[209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1 <[email protected]>... Relaying
denied
Dec 22 08:21:52 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHe000495:
ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[email protected]_waste_oxygen;>,
relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.1.8
<[email protected]_waste_oxygen;>... Domain of sender address
[email protected]_waste_oxygen does not exist
Dec 22 08:21:53 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHf000495:
ruleset=check_rcpt,
arg1=<relaytest%[email protected]_waste_oxygen;>, relay=rt.njabl.org
[209.208.0.15], reject=550 5.7.1
<relaytest%[email protected]_waste_oxygen;>... Relaying denied
Dec 22 08:21:53 mailgate sendmail[495]: hBMDLoHh000495:
ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<[email protected]_waste_oxygen;>,
relay=rt.njabl.org [209.208.0.15], reject=553 5.1.8
<[email protected]_waste_oxygen;>... Domain of sender address
[email protected]_waste_oxygen does not exist