Comment 4 for bug 236715

Binary package hint: nullmailer

I just got a call from our IT security officer on campus telling me my system was hammering the relay host and checking my logs it seems it was trying to connect ~20 times every second, but the relay was rejecting it because my hostname was misconfigured. This is very bad behaviour for any mailer program, expected behaviour would be for it to wait a minimum of 15 minutes before trying again. This is on Hardy Herron with nullmailer version 1:1.03-5.

My fix, as with all mailer problems was to immediately swap to postfix so this bug no longer affects me, but is most definitely still present.