On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Peter D. Gray wrote: > I think you should at least consider making the limit 0 by default.
I don't like incompatible changes. The limit was introduced for a reason (somebody got bitten). I would need a lot of convincing by a lot of people before I'd feel that it could be changed. > It seems to me that most (in fact nearly all) of the "rate limiting" > settings in exim are turned off (eg queue_only_load). What about these (they are just a few that I found with a quick grep): |smtp_accept_max|Use: main|Type: integer|Default: 20| |smtp_connect_backlog|Use: main|Type: integer|Default: 20| |smtp_max_synprot_errors|Use: main|Type: integer|Default: 3| |smtp_max_unknown_commands|Use: main|Type: integer|Default: 3| You are right, though, that there is inconsistency. It's hard to be consistent. In the case of queue_only_load, I think it might be hard to pick a number that would be suitable for the huge variety of hardware configurations that Exim runs on. Maybe. I'm no expert in exactly what the load value means. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service 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/
