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. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
