Re: [exim] Ratelimit Tricks

Dean Brooks wrote:

*snip*

>
> Imagine the above ACL. Sure, it will start denying them when they have
> sent more than 10 bad recipients in an hour. But how can you write that
> ACL to check the ratelimit even if they havent sent a bad recipient?
>
> You can't, because there is no way to read a ratelimit value without
> incrementing.
>

Fer hem's sake - the Exim source code is on the server...

A few minutes with grep and a look into the files and it should become apparent
that ratelimit makes use of the DB.

If this is *really* useful, what is wrong with reading that DB with tools of
one's own?

Doesn't have to be in compiled C, but copying and modifying tools that already
DO such things are one method...

Bill