IDS options?

[Stephen Swaney]

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Phone: 202 338-1670
Cell: 202 352-3262
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Devon Harding
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 3:43 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: IDS options?
>
> Does MailScanner, or Sendmail for that matter, have any IDS functions
> built in where if it sees a swarm of SMTP connections from a
> particular IP or domain, it disables future connections from that IP
> for a set ammount of time.   IronMail has this feature.
>

This can be implemented in Sendmail with a milter (mail filter) which limits
the number of messages by connecting client IP, sender, or recipient. Please
see:

        http://www.milter.info/milter-limit/index.shtml

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Phone: 202 338-1670
Cell: 202 352-3262
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com

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