Jim Seymour via Postfix-users:
> Secondly: Does the occurrence of any of them, following a CONNECT
> message, imply the connection has been dropped by postscreen? 

No. You know that postscreen drops a conenction (i.e.  does not
pass it to an smtpd process) when it logs:

    HANGUP from clientaddr:clientport
    DISCONNECT from clientaddr:clientport

But you can't know what connections postscreen was handling
when the process (or the system) was killed.

You know that postscreen passes a connection to an smtpd process
when it logs:

    PASS NEW clientaddr:clientport
    PASS OLD clientaddr:clientport

In postscreen logs, each connection has its own sequence of events
(CONNECT, DNSBL, PREGREET, etc). Event sequences from different
connections will overlap in time.

    CONNECT from clientaddr1:clientport1 to serveraddr1:serverport1
    CONNECT from clientaddr1:clientport2 to serveraddr1:serverport1
    PREGEET ... from clientaddr1:port1 
    CONNECT from clientaddr1:clientport3 to serveraddr1:serverport1
    HANGUP from clientaddr1:port1
    DISCONNECT from clientaddr1:port1
        ...

Event sequences can usually be grouped by clientaddr:clientport but
it is possible that some perverted client uses the same client port
and IP address in successive connections.

        Wietse
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