On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 11:02:41 PDT, Joel Jaeggli said:
I sent more than 20 mails in the last hour. Given that I have a local mta each of those results in a seperate connection attempts to the machine I
OK. Make it 100, or make it "20 by default, user can ask for 100". Or anything else like that. The *POINT* was that too often, a compromised end-user machine can send *THOUSANDS* of messages. Not tens. Not hundreds. Thousands. Remember - if you're catching 1M spams/day, that means that the spammer has to have a machines*rate product over 1M spams/day. If there's 10 billion spams/day total, the total machines*rate product has to be over 10G. And if there's only several million source machines, that means the rate has to be in the thousands.