Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nullmailer
I just got a call from our IT security officer on campus telling me my
system was hammering the relay host and checking my logs it seems it was
trying to connect ~20 times every second, but the relay was rejecting it
because my hostname was misconfigured. This is very bad behaviour for
any mailer program, expected behaviour would be for it to wait a minimum
of 15 minutes before trying again. This is on Hardy Herron with
nullmailer version 1:1.03-5.
My fix, as with all mailer problems was to immediately swap to postfix
so this bug no longer affects me, but is most definitely still present.
** Affects: nullmailer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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nullmailer spams relay host if misconfigured
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236715
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