Re: [Exim] Exim and deny of service risk...

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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Para: erick.bullier
CC: exim-users
Assunto: Re: [Exim] Exim and deny of service risk...
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 erick.bullier@??? wrote:

> He say that there is possibility to block exim serveur (or to slow it down)
> for a single user by sending a lot of packet at the same time.
> The example was that postfix detect this and slow down the packet for this
> user and allow the packet the another to pass simultaneously...


If by "packet" you mean "messages on a single SMTP connection", then
Exim 4 can do similar things. Check out the smtp_ratelimit_xxxx options.

They allow you, on a per-host or per-network basis, to limit the rate of
acceptance of SMTP MAIL and RCPT commands.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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