Re: [exim] ratelimit is counting wrong

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 02:09:42PM +0200, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> Actually, I didn't set a period of only a few seconds, because I didn't
> want to restrict the rate too much. I really want to users to be able to
> send for example 600 emails in one hour. They surely shall be able to
> exceed the calculated rate of 1 email per 6 seconds, and they shall be
> able to send 600 emails in the first second of an hour, but they shall
> not be able to send more than 600 emails per hour, thus after the first
> second, they wouldn't be able to send any email within the remaining
> 3599 seconds of the hour. How can I configure this? The documentation of
> the strict-option doesn't sound very satisfying.

What you are trying to do should work the way it's coded. It's quite
likely that you have something else wrong in your ACLs. Please see
my other reply to your thread for more info.

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Dean Brooks
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