BADRCPTDELAY

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Purpose

BADRCPTDELAY is the time in seconds to delay when peer issues an RCPT TO command on a non-existing local address, similar to TARPITDELAY. It only useful with RCPTCHECK, to prevent Directory Harvest Attacks.

Usage

Specify BADRCPTDELAY in qmail-smtpd.rules file along with RCPTCHECK. (In fact BADRCPTDELAY is not taken into account if RCPTCHECK is not set.) Its value must be an unsigned integer (in quotes).

Affected: qmail-smtpd

Default: not set

Example:

:allow,RCPTCHECK="",BADRCPTDELAY="5"

Note:

  • Connection which are delayed take a long time to finish.
  • Be aware that this ties up the available qmail-smtpd slots.
  • Raise connection limits with tcpserver if neccessary.

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