Re: [exim] Using DEFER instead of DENY or DROP for spam

Marc Perkel wrote:
> That actually is true - but I wanted to see how many times n the log
> that someone attempted to send email to the highest MX record. It looks
> like I'm getting about 15000 attempts a day. And - the processing is
> minimal. A dead address would technically be better in that it would
> waste the senders time.

If you're doing that, why not also add a delay before defering? Say 5
minutes or longer? How long do spambots normally wait anyway?

Or you could delay 5 minutes at connect and all the other commands and then
defer/delay at rcpt time.

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