Autor: Craig Jackson Data: A: lists CC: exim-users Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Rumplestiltskin attacks anyway to combat them?
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 18:54, lists wrote: > I have a mail gateway running 4.34 clamd and spamassasin with a smart_route
> to a internal exim box. I am getting rumplestiltskin attack to the point
> that I can honestly say that over 4k of messages that hit the gateway get
> bounced with a 550 unknown user or at least try till the timers on frozen
> messages get them in 5 minutes. Has anyone found a good way to combat this
> problem. I have googled on "rumplestiltskin attack" and for a few hacked
> perl scripts nothing else really. I know this was brought up in here a few
> months ago but google doesn't seem to index the archives very well.
> I wish I could think if a way to check the internal boxes user list before
> the ext. gateway passes the message on. I turned on verify_recipient but
> that did not seem to change anything.
