On Sunday 26 November 2006 23:41, David Daniels wrote: > I'm getting joe-jobed. Bounces from everywhere from what spammers are > sending out using a few of my domain names. > > My exim stops processing incoming mail when it reaches a maximum number > of connections and simply puts these in the log: > > 2006-11-26 13:59:29 SMTP connection from [64.76.163.185] (TCP/IP > connection count = 81) > 2006-11-26 13:59:29 SMTP connection from [207.155.252.67] (TCP/IP > connection count = 81) > 2006-11-26 13:59:29 SMTP connection from [207.253.169.12] (TCP/IP > connection count = 81) > 2006-11-26 13:59:29 SMTP connection from [88.242.17.199] (TCP/IP > connection count = 81) > > It doesn't matter if I have the max connections set at 30 or a few > hundred. The connection max is reached fairly quickly( within a minute > or two). > > Does anyone have some configure settings that lets exim throttle and > still process what it accepts? I've tried several configurations but it > always ends in no processing. I've even tried remarking all the settings > to accept the defaults. > > Here is a snip from configure: > > # maximum number of simultaneous incoming connections > smtp_accept_max = 200 > smtp_accept_max_per_connection = 30 > # after number of incoming connections is exceded, all others are placed > in queue > smtp_accept_queue = 10 > #accept queue per connection > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 10 > # max number of waiting connections > smtp_connect_backlog = 20 > # maximum from a single ip address or per_host > smtp_accept_max_per_host = 20 > # reserve connections for prefered hosts > smtp_accept_reserve = 10 > # when over load_reserve, everything is queued > smtp_load_reserve = 4 > # number of command a session can send before kicking off > smtp_max_unknown_commands = 1 > > > Any ideas would be very appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > David
configure in main section something like this: smtp_accept_max_per_host = 3 3 connection per host. usually it enougth for not-spammers hosts. -- ## 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/
