[Mimedefang] The nerve of these people...

[Vince Hoang]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:18:35PM -0600, Jim McCullars wrote:
>  define(`confBAD_RCPT_THROTTLE', `10')dnl
>
> This will cause sendmail to sleep for one second between
> commands once a remote MTA has sent 10 invalid recipients
> (change the number to your liking - I have heard that some
> people set it as low as three). It won't stop dictionary
> attacks, but it will slow them down. HTH...

With the throttle time so low, I do not see any harm if it triggers
even after 1 bad rcpt. I would be more conservative if there were
a confBAD_RCPT_DROP that drops the connection after X bad rcpts.

-Vince