Re: [Exim] URGENT help too many connections

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Author: Scott Call
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To: ayman farra
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] URGENT help too many connections
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, ayman farra wrote:

>
> I start seeing "Connection from [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
> refused: too many connections" in the mainlog
>

[snip]
>
> Looks like we been attacked by random IP to un
> existing mail users on our mailserver
>
> what should i do ?


set smtp_accept_max_per_host to something like 10 or 20, it will limit the
per-hosts connections.

-S

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