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Dumb MX gateway of the week

Posted on 2006-04-20 16:06:44, modified on 2006-04-20 16:15:25
Tags: Networking, Postmaster, SMTP, Email

Todays idiot mail server of the week award goes to webcontrolcenter.com!

All seems to go fine, until you try to send email as postmaster:

[~] edwin@k7>telnet mail22.webcontrolcenter.com 25
Trying 216.119.106.23...
Connected to mail22.webcontrolcenter.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail22.webcontrolcenter.com
ehlo edwin.adsl.barnet.com.au
250-MAIL22 Hello [203.222.131.252]
250-SIZE 31457280
250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5
250 OK
mail from:<>
250 OK <> Sender ok
rset
250 OK
mail from:<[email protected]>
250 OK <[email protected]> Sender ok
rset
250 OK
mail from:<[email protected]>
550 Sender is not allowed.
Connection closed by foreign host.

And they rudely close the TCP session for you too!

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