Rejecting unknown Users

[[ISO-8859-15] David Höhn]

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Holger Banko wrote:
| Hello everybody,
|
| we use SuSE 9.1 and an actual Mailscanner in front of our Louts Notes
| Mailserver.
|
| As I can see in the /var/log/mail logfile, we have a lot of trouble with
| dictionary attacks. The Notes server is rejecting all unknown users so
I have
| an always full outgoing que.
|
| Is it possible to already reject all unknown users by the Mailscanner
System?
| I can access the LDAP Directory of the notes server. Or just create an
"valid
| users file" and point the Mailscanner/Sendmail to it.
|
| But I dont know how. I dont have much experience in configuring sendmail.
|
| Thanks in advance you for your help

For a general idea

http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/270.html

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