Tony Finch wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, W B Hacker wrote: >> Tony Finch wrote: >> >>> The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique >>> events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different >>> recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. >> What happens if/as/when said 'someone' sends many messages to the *same* >> recipient rather than to different recipients? > > They aren't counted, which is the whole point. > > Tony.
I understood they were not counted 'there' - but can you clarify as to whether they are / are not counted *anywhere*? Grant these are separate needs, hence separate code (probably). But ratelimiting should be just as capable 'somewhere' at preventing a vicious or foolish Luser or broken script/daemon from beating the bejayzus out of a *single* recipient with 1,000 messages as a hundred messages each to ten recipients. Or whatever. Realworld case that caused me to ask was a flawed 'dominant carrier' email-to-fax system circa early '90's that - when fed an off-by-one phone number, placed over 9,000 fax retry calls to the voice line of a retired octogenarian in Barbados. Neither she, her family Doctor, nor the lawyer the family engaged, found it amusing in the least. Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
