On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:07:50AM +0200, Mark Elkins wrote: > I think the other thing to consider is setting "smtp_accept_max = 10" > means you can only process up to 10 e-mails at one time. If you are > doing a number of checks, Virus, multiple blacklist checks - these tests > can take a while - possible a meaningful amount of seconds each. Just > bear that in mind. You probably want to increase"smtp_accept_max" quite > a bit. I've also changed my "log selector": > > log_selector = +subject +incoming_interface +incoming_port +smtp_connection > > (sits in the same config area as "smtp_accept_max = 10") > > Now, when tailing the exim_main.log log file, you can see what the > "Connection Count" number is. I think you'll find this useful. > > 2017-01-25 11:04:50 SMTP connection from [S.S.S.S]:1188 I=[D.D.D.D]:25 > (TCP/IP connection count = 3) > > > On 24/01/2017 20:33, The Doctor wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:34:23PM -0500, Chris Siebenmann wrote: > >>> I cannot find the culprit doing this. > >>> > >>> Using Exim 4.88 on FreeBSD 11 I placed this into my configuration: > >> [...] > >>> smtp_accept_max = 10 > >> Well, you have a limit of 10 simultaneous SMTP connections period. > >> Once you have ten active ones, any further connections will get this > >> message. > >> > >>> smtp_accept_max_per_host = 5 > >> ... and a single IP can only have five connections at once. > >> > >> Note that despite the names being very similar to each other, > >> 'smtp_accept_max_per_connection' means something completely > >> different than 'smtp_accept_max_per_host'. One is about limits > >> on SMTP connections, one is about limits on MAIL commands within > >> a single connection. > >> > >> If your problem is that you cannot see where the connections > >> are coming from, look at what 'exiwhat' reports, as well as > >> ps, netstat, lsof, and other similar tools for looking at > >> network connections. > >> > >> - cks > > Provided that the server can respond. > > >
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