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Sendmail smtp session error
Name: danny Date: January 7, 2002 at 06:41:23 Pacific
Comment:
Is there a way in cf file to specify to a maximum number of errors before it kick the session.
In some cases spammer are guessing dozen of emails (from or rcpt), and even try to tranmit the envelope content, ignoring 550 error in previous smtp steps.
The i would like sendmail to close the tcp connection after 1 or 2 error. Is there any knwon parameters for that?
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