Subj : email relay error
To : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jan 31 2024 02:42 pm
Re: email relay error
By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Wed Jan 31 2024 11:30 am
> For the past couple of days, I have been getting the following errors when
> trying to relay mail via mail.synchro.net.
>
> 0036 SEND/TLS [mail.synchro.net] WARNING 'Bad/unrecognized data format'
> (-32) setting session active
> 1/31 11:02:38 mail 0036 SEND connecting to port 587 on mail.synchro.net
> [71.95.196.36]
> 1/31 11:02:38 mail 0036 SEND !INVALID RESPONSE: '421 System Error: Maximum
> connections exceeded, try again later' Expected: '220'
> 1/31 11:02:38 mail 0036 SEND mail.synchro.net replied with: "421 System
> Error: Maximum connections exceeded, try again later" instead of the
> expected reply: "220 ..."
>
> The system tries again later and gets the same response. Could there be a
> boo-boo on my end that is causing that response, or is it something going on
> at the server end?
I was probably just under a botnet attack at that time. I have my SMTP[S] server set to 100 clients, which is normally plenty, but the botnets can time connect thousands of a clients at a time (or try to), thus starving out legit clients. Just try again, it looks fine right now.
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