On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 abc@??? wrote:
> What happened here? I thought Exim is supposed to disconnect people if they
> cause too many errors in their connection?
That control is for syntax errors in the SMTP dialogue. It does not
apply to unknown recipients.
> Why did Exim allow the one host to make 38,000 requests in 3 hours
> within just 1 connection?
You can use one of the $acl_cx variables in an ACL to accumulate data
over multiple messages in the same connection if you want to.
> Isn't there a way to disconnect a host if they cause too many errors in the
> SMTP dialogue?
As long as you can find a way to define "errors", then yes. You can
count messages, failed and accepted recipients, and define whatever rule
you want to based on this data.
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