On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Mark Smith wrote: > > > > The only way to deal with that is to set > > smtp_accept_max_per_host = 1. > > > > Thank you. But it doesn't seem to fix anything, it just > > takes longer because the other connections are delayed. But > > the result is the same. $rcpt_count never gets above 1. > > That's true. All it does is slow them down and stop them sending to more > than one recipient at a time, some of which will fail and some won't (if > they're carrying out a dictionary attack). It just gives you more time to > notice what they're doing and block them before they manage to send you > hundreds of spam emails.
But I'd rather that they pump up the $rcpt_failed_count so I can drop them based on that, wouldn't I? Then they wouldn't get any mail into my machine. > > > > Now, why would yahoo only send one RCPT per connection when 4 > > addresses to the same domain are on the same message? What > > is the benefit of doing that -- aside from facilitating spam > > from their addresses? > > > > I've wondered this myself. There seems to be quite a few mailservers out > there that do this. Hmmm. Very curious indeed. Thank you. Marilyn > > - Mark > > > -- -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
