Recipient Limitation(s)

[Philip Butler]

David,

There's a way to do this in your sendmail configuration (assuming you  
are running sendmail):

	O MaxRecipientsPerMessage=n   (where n is the max number of recipients)

I am sure a good google search will explain more on this setting.

If you are not running sendmail, this will be of no use to you.

The advantage/disadvantage of this is that it runs before MailScanner  
is involved.  This is an advantage in that the message is quickly  
rejected (and the sender notified) before MailScanner has to process  
it.  It is a disadvantage in that it won't be seen by MailScanner and  
therefore not quarantined for analysis.

My 2 cents worth...

Phil Butler

On Jul 22, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Gottschalk, David wrote:

> Is it possible to setup MailScanner to block/quarantine messages  
> over a certain number of recipients? I want to do this because we  
> have a lot of accounts being compromised and sending out emails to a  
> large number of recipients. I think this would be a good proactive  
> measure.
>
> I've looked into spamassassin doing this, but cannot find anything  
> that would give me the ability to do this.
>
> Any tips would be appreciated, I've searched all around and haven't  
> found anything.
>
> David Gottschalk
> UTS Email team
> david.gottschalk at emory.edu
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