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

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Autor: Mark Smith
Datum:  
To: 'Marilyn Davis'
CC: 'Exim Mailing List'
Betreff: RE: [exim] exim allowed someone to slam my mail server for 3 hours

> I just added this and I tested it from a yahoo account by
> sending to 4 addresses on my domain, 3 of which are bogus.
>
> Yahoo makes 4 connections:
>
> 10800 Listening...
> 10800 Connection request from 68.142.206.160 port 43138 10800
> 1 SMTP accept process running 10800 Listening...
> 10800 Connection request from 68.142.206.160 port 43139 10800
> 2 SMTP accept processes running 10800 Listening...
> 10800 Connection request from 68.142.206.160 port 43140 10800
> 3 SMTP accept processes running 10800 Listening...
> 10800 Connection request from 68.142.206.160 port 43141 10800
> 4 SMTP accept processes running 10800 Listening...
>
> So, that's disappointing. The spammer has to cooperate?
>
> Marilyn Davis
>

The only way to deal with that is to set smtp_accept_max_per_host = 1.

- Mark