Hi, Thanks a lot.
In other words: It's not a matter of number of accounts. Use an old PC, setup ImGate and be happy. Reviewing the hardware requierments, it reminds my to a microwave... ============================================ Am Donnerstag, 25. November 2004 um 20:43 schrieben Sie: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Schaible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "A. Clausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 09:37 > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Dictionary attacks >> Hi >> >> > I'm not too sure what you mean by "bound" to IMail. I can't see any > reason >> > why it couldn't be a frontend for any MTA. >> This was already answered yesterday night. My english-parser had an GPF > ;-) >> >> After the discussion, it looks that ImGate might be the right and serious > solution. >> But it is an overkill for my tiny small ISP company with a less than 1000 > mail accounts. > We have, all domains counted, about 700 email addresses, and the level of > dictionary attacks we were getting were so severe that we were forced to go > to Postfix, and hide our IMail box. Unfortunately to the pleasant fellows > who initiate these attacks, relative size means nothing. > I've never really comes to grip with whether what we were being hit by was a > spammer, or a deliberate DoS. It doesn't amtter, as it shut down our IMail > service at times. It got so bad that even the MS-SMTP service we tried > using as a gateway was getting swamped with tens of thousands of queue > files. These are all running on higher-end machines, and the only thing I > can say is that there must be some real issues with MS's TCP/IP networking, > because we're now running on a 233mhz Pentium with 128mb of RAM, and it > handled the worst that these guys could do extraordinarily well. ============================================ -- Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen -------------------------------------------- Merlin Consulting Martin Schaible Bahnhofstrasse 27 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone: +41 1 391 30 00 Fax: +41 1 391 32 49 Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch Support: http://support.merlinconsulting.ch GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 -------------------------------------------- News - Neue Produkte: .:. Kiwi Syslog Monitor .:. Paessler GmbH .:. Sawmill Loganalyzer -------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
