[Mimedefang] The nerve of these people...

[Albert E. Whale]

I've been running with a value of Two.  I admin Several ISPs, and this is
working for all of my servers.

Chad Stalvey wrote:

> So I'll have to rebuild the cf file then huh... What's a good "n" number?
>
> Let me ask a really stupid question, when you rebuild the cf files, do you
> have to recompile the binary?
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> [mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com]On Behalf Of David F.
> Skoll
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:05 PM
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] The nerve of these people...
>
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Chad Stalvey wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to stop people that try this sort of thing?
>
> [Dictionary attack]
>
> Check out the BadRcptThrottle option in Sendmail.  After n bad RCPT TO:
> commands, it throttles the connection by introducing delays.
>
> --
> David.
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