dealing with dictionary attacks

[Res]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Steve Campbell wrote:

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

OK since your now in denial and wont patch it, I will write  a generic 
patch that might help ;)


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> 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
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>> Steve Campbell wrote:
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>>> ----- 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
>>> 
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>>>> 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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Cheers
Res

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