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RE: Mailbomber avoidance

From: Dean Manners (deanmispone.com.au)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2007 - 18:06:24 CST


> we recently had somebody send thousands of mails to one account. Is it
> possible to set limits for the accounts (like 100mails per day or so)?
>
> What is the usual procedure against mail bombers?

One way of doing this, recipient throttling, is with postfix-policyd
(http://policyd.org/). Which is particulary effective if you have multiple
inbound MX's.