force autolearn

Drew Marshall drew at themarshalls.co.uk
Tue Jun 13 17:30:56 IST 2006


On Tue, June 13, 2006 16:54, Dave wrote:
> I've been hit with a dictionary attack for generic accounts like uucp,
> accounts, home, sales, etc. I have never used or plan to use these
> accounts. Right now I have a rule that adds 5 to the score if sent to
> those accounts but I would like to have them autolearned as well. From
> what I've read, custom rules are not used in the autolearn threshold
> count. Is that true?

Why not just reject these (And all other unknown users) at your MTA? Save
all the processing overhead and protect your server from a really big
directory attack.

Drew


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