+ # Reject all RCPT commands after too many bad recipients
+ # This is partly a defense against spam abuse and partly attacker abuse.
+ # Real senders should manage, by the time they get to 10 RCPT directives,
+ # to have had at least half of them be real addresses.
+ #
+ # This is a lightweight check and can protect you against repeated
+ # invocations of more heavy-weight checks which would come after it.
+
+ deny condition = ${if and {\
+ {>{$rcpt_count}{10}}\
+ {<{$recipients_count}{${eval:$rcpt_count/2}}} }}
+ message = Rejected for too many bad recipients
+ logwrite = REJECT [$sender_host_address]: bad recipient count high [${eval:$rcpt_count-$recipients_count}]
+