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Author: Dave Evans
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To: Marten Lehmann
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] ACL to quit connection after too many invalid recipients
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:33:42PM +0100, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I once saw an example for an ACL which quits the SMTP connection or
> causes long delays if a sender tries too many RCPT TO addresses which
> don't exist on the server. Do you have an idea where I could look for
> this example? Thanks.


http://wiki.exim.org/AclSmtpRcpt has some. It should give you some ideas; use
"drop" to drop the connection, or "deny" combined with "delay" to slow down
the responses.

See also:

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch40.html#SECTACLmodi
(for "delay")

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch40.html#SECID200
(for "drop")

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch11.html#SECTexpvar
(for things like "$rcpt_count" etc).

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