/var/spool/mqueue* messages

[Jeff A. Earickson]

I have mine set to 4, don't remember why.  My mail server gets 30K
to 40K messages a day.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Venkata Achanta wrote:

> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:41:24 +0100
> From: Venkata Achanta <vachanta at GMAIL.COM>
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> Subject: Re: /var/spool/mqueue* messages
> 
>> define(`confBAD_RCPT_THROTTLE',`1')dnl slow down any dictionary attacks
>> on your system. You can change the 1 to a higher number.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions
>
> what would be the best number for this. Is every one using 1 or a higher
> number to mitigate the dictionary attacks ?
>
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