Re: [Exim] Limit Mails per time per adress

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Christoph Siess wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have a somewhat strange problem:
> I have a server with some users which all have php access. These users
> are allowed to send mail via the php mail function. Now some users think
> it is funny to send about thousands mails to the same mail adress. So
> I need to specify something like the following limit:
> Only x mails per y minutes to foo@??? are allowed
>
> After reading the exim's documentation i haven't found a way to do such
> limitation, can anyone give me a hint please?

It's not possible with plain exim.

BUT, you could either use some external program, called by ${run} or an
external daemon, that listens on a unix-socket, and gets queried by the
new ${readsocket}-operator in exim 4.11

ciao