Re: [exim] Getting exim to refuse connections

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Mark
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Getting exim to refuse connections
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Mark wrote:
>
> I think the load monitoring script which plays with iptables is probably
> going to be the way to go.


Yes. It's impossible to selectively accept connections on a listening
socket with the Unix sockets API. In your situation it would be possible
to just close the listening socket, but Exim doesn't provide a facility
for that other than killing the daemon.

Tony.
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