On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> What happened here?  I thought Exim is supposed to disconnect people if they
> cause too many errors in their connection?  

That control is for syntax errors in the SMTP dialogue. It does not 
apply to unknown recipients.

> Why did Exim allow the one host to make 38,000 requests in 3 hours
> within just 1 connection?

You can use one of the $acl_cx variables in an ACL to accumulate data 
over multiple messages in the same connection if you want to. 

> Isn't there a way to disconnect a host if they cause too many errors in the
> SMTP dialogue?

As long as you can find a way to define "errors", then yes.  You can 
count messages, failed and accepted recipients, and define whatever rule 
you want to based on this data.


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