Re: [exim] exim allowed someone to slam my mail server for 3…

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Author: Sam Michaels
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim allowed someone to slam my mail server for 3 hours
On 6/27/05, Matt Sealey <matt@???> wrote:
> I don't see any evidence that these thousands of failures were
> one single unbroken connection. How would you fix up Exim to
> handle someone doing real reconnects, a new session each time?


This is why I'd REALLY like to see some throttling built into Exim. I
suggested it 2 years ago
(http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20030908/msg00116.html)
and while I wouldn't take my suggestion word-for-word any more, the
rate limiting concept with directive similar to the retry
configuration would be nice.

EXPERIMENTAL_THROTTLE=yes :)

Sam