Re: [exim] rate limit on local accounts?

Apologies in advance for the slightly obtuse answer, which will no doubt
raise hackles, but you'll understand why in a moment...

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 09:12 -0400, B. Cook wrote:
> Is it possible?

Yes.

> Does it work?

Yes.

How it works depends entirely on context - when you say "local account",
do you mean:

a. an account with shell access to the system sending mail via the
"mail" binary, or equivalent?

b. an account with which a user can send authenticated SMTP from a
remote client?

c. an account used for webmail, where the webmail application lives on
the same machine and sends via SMTP to the local SMTP daemon?

d. as (c) but using local input via (for example) PHP libraries or by
calling the "mail" binary itself?

This is an important distinction, because the way you would achieve rate
limiting will differ (the position within your ACL flow will differ, for
one) depending on how the mail is injected.

Graeme