Re: [exim] Stopping spammers who won't accept rejection

Chris Lear wrote:
>
> 1) Is there a cunning bit of exim config to save spamassassin CPU cycles
> on lots of similar mail from the same IP address all at the same time?
> [It makes me wonder whether accepting and dropping would be my best
> option, though I'm not going to do that]

No solution, but an idea: you might want to look at having SA rejection
feed back into a per-host rate-limit configuration, and have exim
configured to reject (or defer) based on that ratelimit _before_ SA is
tested.

> 2) Has anyone else noticed this trend of spammers trying to bore your
> server into submission with variations of the same message?

Yup.

- Marc