dealing with dictionary attacks

[Res]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Rick Chadderdon wrote:

> Res wrote:
>> I beg to difer, a recent check of archives shows pf has the most
>> problems with MS, and its a well known fact,m even admitted to b ythe
>> regular postmix weenies.

> Just for reference, my archives - which are complete from Aug 08, 2005 -

Those like me who've been on the list for years longer than that and read 
the posts know.
The intergration of sendmail and MS are semless, as it was designed for it 
originally.

> Let's just say that people working with *any* mail
> server that they're unfamiliar with are going to have questions and

Something we agree on.

> it, and being helpful even when a post is ostenibly off-topic can only
> help MailScanner's popularity.

So by your count, we should now support microsoft windows email client 
problems, sorry  OT is OT, there is a reason there are postmix lists, 
mailwatch lists, clam lists, and so on, because thats their specialty, not 
ours.

> MailScanner in a message to the Postifix list, sometimes the entire
> thread degrades into anti-MailScanner rhetoric.

Yes, we know. Venma is worse, way way way way worse then DJB used to be, 
but at least Dan and his 'in crew' don't attack MS.

> As an aside, I've used probably every major Unix mail server over the
> last 15-20 years, and a few of the minor ones.  (As well as several on
> Windows, a couple of which were quite good.  Exchange doesn't count

likewise, except for winblows, and wont ever run it :)

> although I have to admit to not using it much since I switched to qmail
> in 1997-1998.  I no longer use qmail, sendmail, exim or courier for a

Each to our own, I've used all you've mentioned, for us sendmail is best 
except for shared hosting where qmail in a NAS environment is far superier 
than anything.

> variety of reasons.  I don't call people who choose any of those (or
> other) servers names, although I could certainly think of some for
> people who insist on using either sendmail or qmail.  (Bendmail
> weenies?  Nah, too derivative...  :P )

You are new around here arnt ya :)  its rendmaul, akin to postmix, can't 
say I've seen another name for qmail tho, its been a long time standing 
joke between a few of us.

Glenn:  What should we call qmail ?? we gota have a nick for it ;)

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Cheers
Res

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