On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Jeremy Nicholls wrote:
> So, has anybody come up with any way (assuming Exim doesn't already support
> it) that will force a remote server to back off if it exceeds some threshold ?
> I know that there are the smtp_accept_max* config options, but they're not
> quite what I'm after.
No, there isn't anything quite like that. Exim isn't keeping statistics
like "x messages (for user y) from server z in the last hour", I'm
afraid.
You could hack something up - a program that tails the Exim log, and
uses what it finds to maintain a file that Exim consults via
host_reject, say.
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