Re: [Sheflug] Logs

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Richard wrote:

> I was having a look through the logs in /var/log before close of play
> and came across a single line at the bottom of /var/log/warn which
> says.......
>
> sendmail[4819]: f0M00JW04446: mail.zetnet.co.uk: SMTP DATA-2 protocol
> error: 570 5.7.0 Obsolete list syntax abused by virus, sorry.
>
> anyone know what that might be about ?

It probably barfed on an address that used the old list syntax...  I'd
have to read the RFCs, but it goes something like this:

foobar:<mailbox>,<mailbox>;

It's fairly common to see this (ab)used by M$ WinDuhs lusers, who have
been brainwashed into thinking that the semicolon is a valid address
separator, when in fact it's not.  Personally, I wouldn't hide behind some
"virus", I'd say that you needed to get an MUA that was
standards-compliant.  Then again, I'm a would-be net.nazi and BOFH ;-)

Cheers

Richard


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