Re: QMail DOS

[Markus Stumpf]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 07:25:20PM -0000, Andrew Richards wrote:
> The standard DoS is to open lots of SMTP connections to an SMTP server,
> which could be qmail, or any other MTA - and leave them open.

Which can easily be dealt with by setting Q/control/timeoutsmtpd to
a lower value (default is 1200 seconds).

        \Maex