Re: [IMail Forum] Dictionary Attacks

[Matrosity Tech Support]

that's because imail doesn't have tarpitting by definition. S.J.Stanaitis wrote: Stupid question, where's this mystery reg-key to enable tarpitting.  I did a search for tarpitting in messages from the last 2 months and found zilch. Thanks, Sam Dev wrote: True, but I still give credit to Ipswitch, despite their incredibly slow product development pace, of getting the dictionary attack countermeasure deployed ahead of what they originally planned. The attacks were killing a lot of us. In fact, the lack of tarpitting in v.8 was the final straw that forced us to migrate to a competing mail server. Average CPU usage immediately went from 50% to 1%. In fact, I recently did the first reboot (for MS patches) with the production server--after 96 days of continuous uneventful uptime. Total system memory usage remained rock stable (+-30MB) the entire time. The next release of Imail must be fully-featured and bullet-proof, otherwise I can't see them surviving against increasingly superior competition. Dev Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 2:29:40 PM, you wrote: HE> I am sorry but I disagree. HE> This has been requested for a long time and HE> this is a common feature in HE> many programs. HE> Ipswitch decide in the last minute to add it, HE> I think that show where HE> their focus has been. HE> ICS and not Imail server. HE> Dev wrote: In Ipswitch's defense, I went on a rant about this limited functionality last month, and Tripp replied with some helpful background here: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum@list.ipswitch.com/msg98088.html Dev Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 9:16:10 AM, you wrote: HE> I really don't understand why Ipswitch did not HE> make this function work a HE> little better. HE> Just dropping the connection seems to be lazy on their part. HE> They could have made this function better while at it. HE> H. HE> Matrosity Tech Support wrote: no period of time so they can simply open another connection and keep doing so. Tom Pepper wrote: IMail 8.20: After the maximum invalid recipients are reached, the SMTPD will close the connection. How long is this IP address denied access to the server? Is it reset after a period of time? Thanks, Tom 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/ -- S.J.Stanaitis Network Administrator, Decorative Product Source http://www.dpsource.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (877)-650-8054 x160