Stan Hoeppner:
> Yes, as always.  I've simply been looking at this from the premise that
> our countermeasures which stop spam connections before the RCPT TO stage
> will also stop dictionary attacks before the RCPT TO stage since such
> attacks typically come from the same types of sources.  ...

Some people record the sender and recipient, for the case when (not
if) the countermeasures have the unavoidable false positive.

> "smtpd_delay_reject = yes" doesn't cause a user lookup for each
> connection does it?  Doesn't this merely log the RCPT TO address without
> looking it up? 

As documented, smtpd_delay_reject changes the timing. It does
not promise anything else.

        Wietse

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