On Tuesday 29 March 2005 10:31 am, Tobias Orlamuende wrote: > After intensive logging I found out, that chkuser sends something like "You > are violating my security policy" when CHKUSERRCPTLIMIT and / or > CHKUSER_WRONGRCPTLIMIT is reached. > That's fine so far, but the other side is still sending masses of "rcpt > to". This causes qmail-smtpd to stay open for a very long time until the > sender finishes sending his spam.
so? the resources consumed by a single copy of qmail-smtpd hanging around for
some spammer to give up are minimal.
> Wouldn't it make sense to let chkuser terminatie this specific qmail-smtpd
> instance if one of the above limits is reached?
perhaps, but why?
> If yes, how could it be implemented?
just edit the code. Find the place where it flips on the "ok, we're not
accepting anymore" limit... and have it exit.
-Jeremy
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