Hello,

I'd like to ask your advice. What would be the effect of implementing 
ratelimit instead of smtp_accept_max_per_connection?

I have smtp_accept_max_per_connection set and it happens that when it is 
exceeded and the sending party is an MTA relaying emails through exim, 
the connection is terminated, the MTA (Mercury for Windows) panics and 
bounces some of the emails which were stopped because connection was 
terminated. It may be that this is Mercury's fault (it should not bounce 
but re-queue them) but I have no control over Mercury's behaviour and 
wonder if I may be a bit safer by specifying ratelimit. However, if the 
only result of ratelimit will be to terminate the connection silimary as 
in the case of smtp_accept_max_per_connection, then there is not much 
point in implementing it in my case.

I'd appreciate your advice. I just need to understand what are the 
operational differences between ratelimit and 
smtp_accept_max_per_connection.

Thanks!

Zbigniew Szalbot


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