Sven Mueller wrote:
> > Hence, it's rather "one mail falls through" or something. Doesn't sound
> > security-relevant to me.
>
> Well, it's more of an indirect DoS. The mails are rejected with an SMTP
> temporary failure code according to my quick test. This means that those
> mails fill up the sending SMTP daemons queue (which is usually the same
> host or a closely related host to the host spampd runs on).
The mails should be automatically cleaned from the queue when they are
locked in it for too long.
> Apart from that, this is bug is at least a serious problem, since it might
> deny perfectly legal mails from reaching the envelope recipient.
Spam filters usually do that...
Regards,
Joey
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