I recently set up the free LISTSERV light for a small non-profit. Seems
to work fine EXCEPT for a constant barrage of messages from
cherry.ease.lsoft.com, which according to the headers, originated at
peach.ease.lsoft.com.

The set up has a Microsoft Exchange 2000 server sitting between the
world and my LISTSERV, with both NAT'd behind a firewall. Here is the
SMTP log for the message coming into Exchange:

2002-11-13 00:41:14 209.119.0.109 cherry.ease.lsoft.com SMTPSVC1
MHBSERVER 192.168.1.5 0 EHLO - +cherry.ease.lsoft.com 250 0 330 26 0
SMTP - - - -
2002-11-13 00:41:14 209.119.0.109 cherry.ease.lsoft.com SMTPSVC1
MHBSERVER 192.168.1.5 0 MAIL - +FROM:<> 250 0 27 36 0 SMTP - - - -
2002-11-13 00:41:14 209.119.0.109 cherry.ease.lsoft.com SMTPSVC1
MHBSERVER 192.168.1.5 0 RCPT - +TO:<[log in to unmask]> 250
0 43 40 0 SMTP - - - -
2002-11-13 00:41:16 209.119.0.109 cherry.ease.lsoft.com SMTPSVC1
MHBSERVER 192.168.1.5 0 DATA -
<[log in to unmask]> 250 0 131 1802 484 SMTP
- - - -
2002-11-13 00:41:16 209.119.0.109 cherry.ease.lsoft.com SMTPSVC1
MHBSERVER 192.168.1.5 0 QUIT - cherry.ease.lsoft.com 0 2203 67 4 0 SMTP
- - - -

That looks pretty normal, except for the missing From. Here is the SMTP
log when Exchange tries to forward it:

2002-11-13 00:41:16 - OutboundConnectionResponse SMTPSVC1 MHBSERVER - 25
- - 220+SYSDYN.CLEXCHANGE.ORG+ready. 0 0 32 0 0 SMTP - - - -
2002-11-13 00:41:16 SYSDYN.CLEXCHANGE.ORG OutboundConnectionCommand
SMTPSVC1 MHBSERVER - 25 EHLO - mail.beaugeste.com 0 0 4 0 0 SMTP - - - -
2002-11-13 00:41:16 SYSDYN.CLEXCHANGE.ORG OutboundConnectionResponse
SMTPSVC1 MHBSERVER - 25 - - 500+Unknown+command. 0 0 20 0 0 SMTP - - - -
2002-11-13 00:41:16 SYSDYN.CLEXCHANGE.ORG OutboundConnectionCommand
SMTPSVC1 MHBSERVER - 25 HELO - mail.beaugeste.com 0 0 4 0 0 SMTP - - - -
2002-11-13 00:41:16 SYSDYN.CLEXCHANGE.ORG OutboundConnectionResponse
SMTPSVC1 MHBSERVER - 25 - - 250+Go+ahead. 0 0 13 0 0 SMTP - - - -
2002-11-13 00:41:16 SYSDYN.CLEXCHANGE.ORG OutboundConnectionCommand
SMTPSVC1 MHBSERVER - 25 QUIT - - 0 0 4 0 62 SMTP - - - -
2002-11-13 00:41:16 SYSDYN.CLEXCHANGE.ORG OutboundConnectionResponse
SMTPSVC1 MHBSERVER - 25 - - 221+Closing+connection. 0 0 23 0 62 SMTP - -
- -

It is just giving up after the "hello" sequence. This is causing a
"non-delivery report" (NDR) and, since the from is no good, it then
lands in the "bad mail" area.

I am getting many, many of these each and every day.

What's going on? I don't think I even want the messages, but I know I
don't want all of the failures and bad mail.

/s/ MarkB
Mark H Bramhall, CTO, CodeLab Technology Group
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