Davide, how XMail handles the following situation:

SERVER SIDE
-"EnableAuthSMTP-POP3" "1"
-Many CustMapsList configured

MUA SIDE:
-My server requires authentication *NOT* enabled

The client try to send a message (smtp) AFTER a POP3 *BUT* your ip is listed 
in some blacklist configured in CustMapsList.

Will XMail accept this smtp connection as authenticated?


Regards


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <xmail@xmailserver.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 30 de October de 2007 11:37
Subject: [xmail] Re: XMail Win32 threads limit


On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Edinilson - ATINET wrote:

> Since a week we could note a massive (and abnormal) smtp connections in 
> our
> XMail server (XMail 1.25 Win32 on Windows 2000 Server).
> After many adjusts in XMail threads to support this "DDOS", we could note 
> an
> interesting thing: Windows 2000 Server does not support more than 1800
> threads (counting all kind, pop3 threads, smtp threads, mailer threads,
> etc).
> After +-1800 threads, XMail.exe is still there but not answering anymore.
>
> Could others XMail Win32 users confirm this value (1800) ?

It is *very* likely a VM space exhaustion due to the VM reservation that
needs to be done for each thread stack. In Linux (and some Unixes in
general) an `ulimit -s NNNN` can solve the problem, that has been there
since the introduction of the NPTL library. In Windows, XMail uses the
default system stack size, even because there no completely portable (over
the whole Windows family, from NT, up) way to reduce it.
In general, 1000+ threads should be *more* than enough. I suggest you to
use some good Maps inside the server.tab file, so that connections gets
dropped immediately. I noticed the increase of spammer activity too, on
xmailserver.org. About little more than one year ago, I had about 2-3000
rejections at Maps level, whereas the last week I saw than jumping to more
than 40K.
Unfortunately, spammer's Mom is always pregnant.



- Davide


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