On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Marco Tchi Hong wrote: > I'd like to limit the number of recipient a user can specify when sending > mail via our SMTP server. > > In other words, I'd like to refuse the mail if the number of recipients > exceeds 10 for example. > > To do so, I set smtpd_recipient_limit to 10. > > To which value should I set smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit ? I should set > it to 0 ?
No. Postfix will accept 10 recipients and then reject 1000 (the default value for smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit), after which smtpd_soft_error_limit and smtpd_hard_error_limit are applied. See TARPIT CONTROLS in smtpd(8). -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>