[Mimedefang] Dictionary attacks, NDRs etc..

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri Dec 5 08:03:23 EST 2003


On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Cahya Wirawan wrote:

> I read from http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/mailrelay/
> that a ldap lookups directly to exchange server is not really
> recommended because during dictionary attack there will be
> tausend of ldap queries in a minute,

Use Sendmail's MaxRecipientsPerMessage and and BadRcptThrottle settings
to prevent this.

--
David.



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