Re: Oops! (Re: SMTP import error #-5)

[Tim Grossner <tg@wintermute.cityscape.net>]

how would a port scan cause that mail to loop?

Mail Bomb I could probably see doing that...



On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, cmaple wrote:

> 
> Hay
> looked like a Hackers port search to me
> or a mail bomb....may sound stupid
> but.....
> watch for inproper logins
> 
> Steven Pritchard wrote:
> 
> > Oh geez...  I'm sorry about that people.  Hopefully I've stopped that
> > insane mail loop.  I don't know why it was getting through majordomo
> > in the first place, but I'm now blocking incoming mail from the
> > MAILER-DAEMON that was sending all the messages back to the list.
> >
> > If somebody at cross-roads.com could figure out what was causing that
> > loop, I'm sure myself and everyone on this list would appreciate it.
> >
> > Again, sorry about that everybody.
> >
> > Steve
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