Re: SMTP server account probing

From: Brett Glass (brettat_private)
Date: Tue Mar 09 1999 - 12:51:28 PST

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    At 09:36 AM 3/9/99 -0800, John E. Martin wrote:
    
    >While the 'goaway' option may not prevent the program from continuing to
    >verify addresses, it will keep your users address from being picked up by
    >the program.
    >
    >Perhaps someone with better sendmail experience could come up with an idea
    >to automatically disconnect connections that are issuing more than 25 VRFY
    >statements at a time?
    
    Unfortunately, the program was designed to defeat the "goaway" option by
    using RCPT TO: commands instead of VRFY commands. What's needed is
    the ability to kill the connection after more than two or three recipient
    names have generated errors.
    
    --Brett
    



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