On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:14:24PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany said:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:12:49PM +0100, Kirill Miazine wrote:
> > * Marc Perkel [2004-12-18 13:53]:
> > > >>I'd like Exim to be able to rate limit outgoing messages from certian IP
> > > >>addresses who I would otherwise relay for.
>
> [...]
>
> > Fire up this daemon and you can use following in your ACL:
> >
> > condition = ${readsocket{/tmp/relay.sock}{$sender_host_address\n}{5s}{}{no}}
> >
> > ${readsocket} in the above line will give "yes" if the relay access
> > should be denied and "no" if it should be allowed. Think that the daemon
> > answers the question: Should I deny access to client $sender_host_address?
>
> I guess what you described provides a way to rate-limit incoming
> messages, and as far as I can tell, he wanted to rate-limit outgoing
> messages.
Is there really a difference? The only difference between 'incoming'
and 'outgoing' has to do with routing and acls - all messages come from
somewhere, and go somewhere. So his method would work equally well with
incoming and outgoing, it just depends on conditions, domains, etc.
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