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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Juha Saarinen
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Dictionary attack defence ideas?
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Juha Saarinen wrote:

> Is there a way to e.g. teergrube idiots who bombard your server with lots
> of connections? Max_connections_per_host or something?

smtp_accept_max_per_host

See also smtp_ratelimit_xxx for slowing down multiple commands on a
single connection. 

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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