Author: Marc Perkel Date: To: David Saez Padros CC: exim-users, Dean Brooks Subject: Re: [exim] Ratelimit Tricks
David Saez Padros wrote: > Hi !!
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>
>> It really is that useful for anyone doing any sort of advanced
>> limiting. With this ability, the ratelimiting code would be extremely
>> powerful and would eliminate the need for external databases for most
>> types of limiting.
>>
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> Just adding a 'no_update' option to ratelimit will be sufficient,
> that way one could test the condition without updating the database
> This will allow things like updating the spam ratelimit on data acl
> and check it on helo or connect acl so hosts sending spam will be
> automatically deferred
>
> I'd also like to see some way to change the counter without returning a
result to the ACL. That would make it easier to have one acl change the
totals and a different one test the totals.