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meulie
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 Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject: [SOLVED]Illegal address syntax from localhost |
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Hi all,
I just came across a whole load of these in my mail-log. What could
| Code: | Dec 9 13:44:27 XCcube postfix/smtpd[31199]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Dec 9 13:44:27 XCcube postfix/smtpd[31199]: warning: Illegal address syntax from localhost[127.0.0.1] in RCPT command: <>
Dec 9 13:44:27 XCcube postfix/smtpd[31199]: lost connection after RSET from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Dec 9 13:44:27 XCcube postfix/smtpd[31199]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Dec 9 13:44:27 XCcube postfix/smtpd[31199]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Dec 9 13:44:27 XCcube postfix/smtpd[31199]: warning: Illegal address syntax from localhost[127.0.0.1] in RCPT command: <>
Dec 9 13:44:27 XCcube postfix/smtpd[31199]: lost connection after RSET from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Dec 9 13:44:27 XCcube postfix/smtpd[31199]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] |
When I checked the process I found: 'smtpd -n smtp -t inet -u -o stress'
What is exactly happening here...?
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richard.scott
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like its erroring on not having a RECPT email address inside the "<>"
Does something on the localhost test your smtp port to see if its alive? |
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meulie
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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Not that I am aware of...
Judging by the logs it started about 13 weeks ago, with about 100/day. However, for today I am already at > 100000! 
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meulie
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Looks like the problem started at midnight, on the second... 
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Do you use mail-filter/amavisd-new to scan your mail?
If so, have you recently upgraded and merged your config files for /etc/amavisd.conf |
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meulie
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The culprit was apache. One of my websites is in the process of being migrated, and therefore I had changed the privileges of the MySQL-user that that site uses to readonly. Somehow that triggered this avalanche or errors...
Still not 100% sure what exactly happened here, but it is fixed now! 
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