Re: [exim] Extracting all possible recipients

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Author: Marc Sherman
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To: Gururajan Ramachandran
CC: exim-users, David Woodhouse
Subject: Re: [exim] Extracting all possible recipients
Gururajan Ramachandran wrote:
> I am attempting to handle dictionary/rumplestiltskin
> attacks at the point where the email is received. I do
> not want any attempts made to deliver the email. The
> method of counting in RCPT ACL allows delivery to some
> email addresses that happen to be valid, does it not?
> I want to throw the entire email away without any
> delivery attempts to any of the targets.


You can accumulate a count of failed recipients in your RCPT acl, and
then reject the entire message based on that count in your pre-DATA acl.

And please don't top-post.

- Marc