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