Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2982 mails)

[Sandy Drobic <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> On Saturday 03 March 2007, Sandy Drobic wrote:
>> Quote from the Postfix site:
>>
>> IMPORTANT: These limits are designed to protect the smtpd(8) server
>> against flagrant abuse. Do not use these limits to regulate legitimate
>> traffic: mail will suffer grotesque delays if you do so.
> 
> These tools are on by default in Suse.  The admonitions of the postfix site
> are for large ISPs or big companies.  Mine is a small machine serving
> me alone and I see no reason to make spammer's life easier.  

Better use greylisting for that. It's more effective and reasonable and
doesn't restrict normal servers.

> I have these set to all the defaults, i.e. one connection per minute per 
> remote client.

These are definitely not Postfix default. I'll have to check with a recent
Suse 10.2 if such defaults have been set.

-- 
Sandy

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