[Mimedefang] Feature request: Tar pitting.

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 08:01, Ben Kamen wrote:

> To mention again - I wrote a TCL script that watches for "RCPT TO" 
> flooding which IS a settable thing in sendmail - as soon as the log 
> message "Possible RCPT TO flooding, throttling" (or whatever it is) 
> comes through the log, the script doesn't tar pit them, it blackhole's 
> them.. for a day (or however long you might feel like)...
> 
> To that user abusing your system you disappear from the internet. ;)

Do you think we can get enough people to do that to convince the
qmail author that the SMTP design really does have good reasons
for handling multiple recipients per message?

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  Les Mikesell
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