[Mimedefang] Feature request: Tar pitting.

[Ben Kamen]

No no - I think people misunderstand...

in Sendmail, RCPT TO throttle doesn't occur with lots of rcpt to commands.. it 
happens when more than the user threshold of BAD recpt to's  is crossed.

I have mine set for 2.

I have 15 people on my server... and between 2 of us, we block > 5000 spams per 
month (it's gone up a lot recently - so I don't have new numbers yet).

How many "unknown users" should I tolerate on my system with 15 users. I think 2 
is pretty fair.

So, AFTER the originating server asks to send mail to more than 2 bad usernames, 
the connection is throttled. Anyone who wants to up the limit can just edit 
sendmail if they want (Hey the source is freely available). I choose to just 
blackhole the site.


  -Ben


Les Mikesell wrote:

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