* "Jan-Kaspar Münnich" <li...@jan-muennich.de>:

> In general RBLs work fine against these dictionary attacks. But in this
> special case where not one address exists at the targeted domain, I
> doubt that RBLs would decrease server load, since that would add one
> more DNS lookup. I wouldn't see a big problem there, even thousands of
> 554s normally don't stress Postfix too much.

* One could also turn off postfix.
* Or disable smtpd
* Or (if there's a spare IP) point the mx to the spare IP and run
  smtp-sink there!

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