On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:44 pm, fire-eyes 
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> I'm using exim 4 for my mta, and I am seeing a lot of these in my logs:
>
> exim[18750]: 2005-02-23 13:34:36 SMTP protocol violation:
> synchronization error (input sent without waiting for greeting):
> rejected connection from H=robin.gentoo.org [140.105.134.102]
>
> It's not every message, but it sure is a lot of them.
>
> Anyone know if this is a misconfiguration on my side, or a problem with
> robin?

If the error message is correct, it's really a problem with robin.  SMTP 
clients are not supposed to send any data before receiving the HELO/EHLO 
from the server.  Sounds like robin is doing this (which won't break any 
server I know of, but it sounds like yours is griping).

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