Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 2188] Moving recipient check last to mit…

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Auteur: Andrew C Aitchison
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Aan: admin
CC: exim-dev
Onderwerp: Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 2188] Moving recipient check last to mitigate brute-force address scan
On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, admin@??? wrote:

> https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2188
>
> --- Comment #6 from Omega Software <development@???> ---
> Hi
>
> Just for the record, we finally opted for enabling Exim support in fail2ban.
> This gives better result for all brute-force attempts as they're soon cut off
> and don't waste bandwidth.
>
> Thanks for your feedback :)


Exim has several rate-limiting options, which I assumed (perhaps
wrongly) you had considered before trying to play with exim code.
Fail2ban has the advantage that it can block an address permanently.

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