Re: Preventing brute force attacks...

From: Tony Earnshaw (no email)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 12:36:51 EDT

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Rob Hutton wrote:

> Is there any built in mechanism for locking out an account for a specified
> period in the case of an attempt to brute force the password with SMTP-AUTH?

TARPIT CONTROLS, sample-smtpd.cf. Was one of the first things I had to
get working :)

Tony

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