Hi,

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Viktor Dukhovni
<postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 03:11:11PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
>> > Dec 24 11:33:10 mail02 postfix/smtpd[8603]: too many errors after DATA
>> > from unknown[23.92.90.231]
>
>     NetRange:       23.92.90.224 - 23.92.90.239
>     CIDR:           23.92.90.224/28
>     OriginAS:       AS19531
>     NetName:        SC7276-23-92-90-224-28
>     NetHandle:      NET-23-92-90-224-1
>     Parent:         NET-23-92-80-0-1
>     NetType:        Reassigned
>     Comment:        THIS BLOCK IS NON-PORTABLE
>     RegDate:        2013-10-24
>     Updated:        2013-10-24
>     Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-23-92-90-224-1
>
>     CustName:       Private Customer
>     Address:        Private Residence
>     City:           BELO HORIZONTE
>     StateProv:      INTERNATIONAL
>     PostalCode:     30690-510
>     Country:        BR
>     RegDate:        2013-10-24
>     Updated:        2013-10-24
>     Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/customer/C04743203
>
> Almost certainly a spamming machine, no PTR record.  Brain-damage in
> SMTP from spam-emitting machines is to be expected.
>
>> > Dec 24 11:48:06 mail01 postfix/smtpd[14470]: too many errors after
>> > RCPT from mail.virtualarmor.com[64.92.219.81]
>
> There the error is after "RCPT TO", thus too many invalid addresses.
> Either a low-quality mailing list or a dictionary attack.

It sounds like it's safe to assume that properly configured and
operating machines won't generate these RCPT and DATA errors?

I would imagine this is especially the case when I see the DATA errors
go from one machine, to the next, to the next...

Thanks again,
Alex

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