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Re: Mail errors or attacks?



On 25/05/10, David Baron (d_baron@012.net.il) wrote:
| > > I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so:
| > > 
| > >
| > > 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] 
| > > dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was "MAIL 
| > > FROM:<jameswellington000.org@[71.121.223.194]> SIZE=8814")
| > 
| >         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| > 
| > > I am running exim4 heavy on a Sid box.
| > >
| > > 
| > >
| > > Exim shows no stuck messages or such. How can I stop this?
| > 
| > It is a spamer...
| > 
| > It it is always the same IP, add it to the backlist
| 
| How do I do this obvious task? In exim? I have fail2ban as well but this is 
| not catching this one. 

Have you tried adding 

/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s 71.121.223.194 -j DROP

to /etc/init.d/iptables.rules?

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