Hi Marten,
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> we are using an autoreply transport with exim 4.69 and according to our
> configuration:
>
> once = /vrmd/mailin/spool/once.db
> once_repeat = 1d
>
> there should be only one autoresponse per sender address and day. But we
> recently had the case, that two autoresponders where sending more than
> 100.000 messages to each other each day. So obviously, the limit didn't
> work. How does exim know which address to use as key for the once-index?
> The return-path is typically empty on auto-responses.
I doubt that it solves your problem, but you should never ever send an
auto-response to a message with an empty return-path, so you could exclude
this in your ACL:
! senders = :
Cheers, Chris.
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