OT: Sendmail : # of mails per TCP connection

[Randal, Phil]

I was looking at this in the weekend and am still puzzled as to suitable
values for ClientRate and ClientConn.  Any hints?

Phil

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[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Steve
Freegard
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 6:26 PM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail : # of mails per TCP connection

Hi Hakan,

Hakan VELIOGLU wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I upgrade my sistem to Red Hat 4 + Sendmail 8.13 +
MailScanner-4.57.6-1 
> ( RPM
> install). I want to use greet_pause option.
> 
> My MTA will wait a few seconds before greeting but after that a
spammer 
> could
> send lots of mails. For this reason, I am looking for a way of
limiting the
> number of mails accepted per connection. I have searched the 
> www.sendmail.org
> but couldn't find anything useful. Is there a way for doing this.
> Thanx.

Sure - see http://www.technoids.org/dossed.html for a good explanation 
of what you can do and how to do it.

Cheers,
Steve.
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