Graeme Fowler wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 09:02 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: >> Is there a variable that returns the number of seconds the connection >> has been open? > > No. > > However in the connect ACL you could set a connection variable to hold > the value of $tod_epoch (or one of the variants) and then check against > that when the connection is closed.
Elegant. And nothing new required. > > Note that this is unlikely to be reliable, because all manner of things > could cause the connection to be open for a long time - and at least 50% > of those reasons are at your end. > > Graeme > Perhaps far more than 50%. Nothing would surprise me w/r zombots, BUT .. I suspect that most run as fast as they can, ergo what Marc *might* be seeing as an apparent 'tactic' of slowing down a session could just be that some of the WinBoxen victimized might have seriously dodgy resources - eg: links with high packet loss rates and/or dial-up lines.... even a box so overloaded with other infections and 'applications' that it is hard-pressed to keep up appearances smtp-wise. JM2CW 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/
