Script to kill dictionary spam attacks

[craigwhite at azapple.com (Craig White)]

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 10:45 -0400, Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
> Jim Perrin wrote: 
> > On 3/26/06, Chris Mason (Lists) <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> > > Does anyone have a script that will notice a Rumplestiltskin type spam
> > > attack (where they try every name possible) and drop the sending into a
> > > block list?
> > >     
> > 
> > Denyhosts is what you're looking for. It's in dag's repository.
> > Alternately you could just move ssh off port 22 and they'll all go
> > away.
> > 
> >   
> Except I am trying to protect smtp, not ssh.
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there's no way to script that - you have to configure your smtp server
and since you don't mention which smtp server you are using nor what you
have looked at in terms of documentation, there's little anyone could
suggest.

Craig