Re: where are the three "too many errors" ?

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:17:24PM -0500, Len Conrad wrote:

> >The client proceeded to "DATA" (pipelined) in the absense of any
> >accepted recipients. The DATA command was also rejected (per the
> >pipelining RFC) making 2 errors. You error limit is 2 (not 3).
>
> I know, of course, but I said 3 (first 5xx beyond the limit) because that's
> the disco occurs and the "too many" logged.
>
> thanks for the clarification as to why I saw no 2nd 5xx explicitly logged.
>

Postfix (recent enough) disconnects when the limit is reached, not when
it is exceeded.

src/smtpd/smtpd.c:smtpd_proto()

...
for(;;) {
if (state->error_count >= var_smtpd_hard_erlim) {
state->reason = "too many errors";
state->error_mask |= MAIL_ERROR_PROTOCOL;
smtpd_chat_reply(state, "421 %s Error: too many errors",
var_myhostname);
break;
}
... process SMTP commands ...
}

--
Viktor.

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