Author: Marc Sherman Date: 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.