Help understanding outgoing connection attempt

[Neil Schneider]

Stewart Stremler said:
> begin  quoting Karl Cunningham as of Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:56:34AM
> -0700:
>> Yes, I agree, it will use a random port.  But isn't that only true for
>> connections initiated from this machine?  If so, why would Postfix have
>> attempted to initiate an outgoing connection to the same host it just
>> got
>> through rejecting a message from?
>
> Ah, I misunderstood the question.
>
> I don't know postfix.
>
> However, let's pretend I just provided a totally bogus and misleading
> answer:
>
> #include <stock_responses/totally-bogus/misleading/answer.txt>
>
> Now, someone will be along in just a minute to gleefully correct me. You
> just watch.

I do know Postfix, but I can only guess at the answer. If postfix rejected
a connection from a remote server, then it is likely sending a bounce
message. That bounce message will connect from a random port to port 25 on
the remote server.

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