jibie wrote:
> Is there any way to activate both sender throttling by from address and 
> ip address? 
> 
> The reason I ask, is that I wanted to use policyd on an incoming mail 
> gateway machine, which from time to time, gets a sudden burst of email 
> from spammers, which i hoped to block with sender throttle by ip and far 
> less often from users misconfiguring a mailer script and suddenly 
> sending a large batch of messages from several different ip's with the 
> same from address. It would be nice to be able to configure policyd to 
> throttle based on both types of limits
> 
> (what I need)
> ==========
> sender provided from
> sender ip
> 
> Currently as I understand it, one must enable SASL throttling to 
> throttle based on the from. Policyd will attempt to throttle by sasl 
> user, which won't be present on an incoming email to my domain and then 
> fall back to sender from based throttling.  This throttle option cannot 
> also be turned on with host/ip based throttling. 
> 
> Are there any work arounds for this?

For IP based throttling, I use the postfix anvil feature to keep my 
system from being overrun.  Not sure how to do it with Policyd itself.

john

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