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On 21/10/09 15:07, Wietse Venema wrote:
> 1) A baseball bat, and a strong WHACK over the idiot's head.
I like te concept. Would you consider stop working on SBTP[1] and do
SBBBWTP[2]? ;)

> 2) Changes to Postfix source code so that it accepts bad command
> syntax. I would be willing to consider a change that runs every
> inbound SMTP command through a regexp table so that you can specify
> a PCRE expression like this:
> 
> /^HELO\s*$/   HELO helo.invalid
> 
> The replacement HELO command still contains useful information.
> 
> This mapping would also solve problems that some people have with 
> clients that send incorrect MAIL FROM or RCPT TO addresses syntax.
> 
> Similar mappings may solve problems with REMOTE SMTP server responses,
> or with SMTP client or server outputs by Postfix itself.
Maybe you could use a similar approach (even include that in) as the one
you took with the recent postscreen daemon, just a simple daemon that
read from port 25 socket, processes and writes to the real SMTPs server.
Might be not.

[1] Simple Beer Transfer Protocol (if I recall right you started worknig
on that in the tcpwrappers days).

[2] Simple BaseBall Bat Whack Delivery Protocol. So we can even send
them overseas ;) :)
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Victoriano Giralt
Systems Manager
Central ICT Services
University of Malaga
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