How did this get through?

[hede]

Am Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:55:08 -0400 schrieb "Troy Carpenter" <troy at carpenter.cx>:

> Short of this person hacking my password (as may be indicated by the second
> line in the log below and which has since been changed), how did the email
> below get through my system? 

Maybe I do not understand the question, but if he really hacked your password, then it's quite common his mails get through your system!?

> smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, 
> [...]
> reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org,
> reject_rbl_client dbsbl.sorbs.net,
> [...]
>
> I notice that smtpd_recipient_restrictions isn't mentioned in the master.cf
> file, however I've seen in the logs the reject_rbl_client lines get hit and
> reject all kinds of email, so I know they are getting used somehow.

AFAIK for every service without it explicitely set it uses the default, which is the one set in main.cf. Those got executed.

regards
hede