Mark,
I am going to see if I can figure out what it does.. I get
Starting exim: 2000-09-08 09:13:00 Exim configuration error
main option "serialized_hosts" unknown in line 138
Oh well maybe Philip can shed some light on this one
later,
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Ivens" <mivens@???>
To: "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] inverse of smtp_reserve_hosts
> Thus spake Philip Hazel (ph10@???):
>
> > > Can anyone think of a way of limiting the number of SMTP connections
> > > solely for a given host-list?
> >
> > No, but you can do it globally with accept_max_per_host.
>
> We have this set but I have found that it still hurt when, for
> example, after a routing problem between us and egroups was resolved,
> all their servers hit ours simultaneously with the queue that they had
> built up.
>
> I would also love to use such a feature to "sin-bin" a subnet that
> some naughty little spammer is using as his playpen.
>
> Would this be something that you would consider adding to a future
> exim release? I think it would be very useful.
>
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