I really couldn't tell you. This is a standard Exim / Dovecot setup using Thunderbird, and in the Outgoing mail server section on Thunderbird "Use username and password" is checked for both machines, so they are authenticating. However, I was testing this sending mail internally, IE, sending mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and both accounts reside on the server.
Have you checked the "authenticated" condition before the "ratelimit" condition? If not, $authenticated_id won't be set, and the limit will apply to the whole MTA regardless of the client. I'm afraid I do not know enough about Exim to know what I would be looking for there. I had read about that in the documentation (trust me, I poured over the documentation), and I *thought* I had it in the correct place when testing that, mainly because it didn't complain, but I could be wrong. What would I be looking for to find the authenticated condition to make sure I have that in the correct place? Thanks for your help! Tony Finch wrote: On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Russell Jones wrote: ratelimit = 3 / 1h / per_rcpt / $authenticated_id The problem? If Computer A sends 4 messages (or a message with 4 recipients) and gets rate limited, Computer B, that is very far away, has a separate email account all together, and a different IP address, also gets rate limited! Computer B cannot send an email at all. Have you checked the "authenticated" condition before the "ratelimit" condition? If not, $authenticated_id won't be set, and the limit will apply to the whole MTA regardless of the client. I have tried with and without the $authenticated_id key. It doesn't seem to make a difference. 2008-04-04 23:55:28 H=localhost ([192.168.1.7]) [127.0.0.1] F=[3]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> temporarily rejected RCPT [4]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is very strange. Why are your client connections apparently coming from localhost? That would explain why removing the $authenticated_id lookup key (leaving the default $sender_host_address) doesn't change anything, because the client IP address has been rewritten before Exim gets to see it. Tony. References 1. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## 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/
