On Fri, 01 May 2015 10:53:14 -0400, Chris Siebenmann
<cks@???> wrote:
>> After receiving a phishing e-mail where the recipient gave away the
>> address and password and that resulted in a huge number of e-mails
>> coming in and going out. I was wondering whether a rate limit could
>> have reduced the damage?
>
> It's extremely likely that a ratelimit on message submission would
>limit the damage by limiting how much email the spammer could send out
>through you before you detected and cut them off.
Also, a ratelimit kicking in can serve as an easy metric to detect
mail accounts that would be worth taking a closer look.
Greetings
Marc
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