add abillity to limit connections from other hosts -------------------------------------------------- Key: JBMAIL-69 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBMAIL-69 Project: JBoss Mail ** Closed - moved to http://buni.org ** Issue Type: Feature Request Reporter: Andrew Oliver Original Estimate: 3 hours Remaining Estimate: 3 hours In order to prevent denial of service attacks, allow an administrator to configure JBMS to prevent more than X connections from a given ip address to SMTP and POP. Thus a quick "connection refused" would be thrown if this were on and server 192.168.1.1 tried to open more than 1 connection if this were set to 1. careful of under and over synchronization here. see ISBN 0-672-32114-9 pg 183