dealing with dictionary attacks

Ken A ka at pacific.net
Fri Mar 9 17:26:46 CET 2007



Steve Campbell wrote:
> OH NO, WHAT HAVE I DONE?
> 
> Sorry Ken, there is no patch to fix my non-existant problem.

Now, darn it.. I did put a SMILEY in my email too!
Here's another one ;-)
Ken

> 
> Steve Campbell
> campbell at cnpapers.com
> Charleston Newspapers
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken A" <ka at pacific.net>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: dealing with dictionary attacks
> 
> 
>>
>>
>> Steve Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Res" <res at ausics.net>
>>> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 6:09 AM
>>> Subject: Re: dealing with dictionary attacks
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Steve Campbell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So what do I do with this huge patch I have compiled that fixes it 
>>>>> all?
>>>>
>>>> I dunno :) since I nor anyone else that I noticed, could reproduce 
>>>> the problem on linux or slowaris at least.
>>>
>>> Well, ever since I applied the patch here on my servers MailScanner 
>>> doesn't swap. You don't think one of my assistants published my patch 
>>> without telling me and you all have been using it, do you?
>>
>> Would you please just post your patch to the wiki already?
>> Just be sure to obfuscate the code! I loaded my swap as a tmpfs, so 
>> that solved my problem. ;-)
>> Ken A
>> Pacific.Net
>>
>>
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