--On 19 March 2010 10:26:00 +0000 Christian Gregoire <cgregoir99@???>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One of my clients' MTA is going mad from time to time, issuing 'EHLO
> <name>' command in a never-ending loop. Exim politely answers with the
> SMTP banner and the extensions available.
>
> Is there an option equivalent to smtp_accept_max_per_connection to limit
> the number of EHLO/HELO commands in a single SMTP connection ?
There is: smtp_accept_max_nonmail
<
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch45.html>
It's not explicitly for this case, but would catch "a mad client looping
sending EHLO, for example." You can limit the hosts to which it applies
with smtp_accept_max_nonmail_hosts
It should be on by default, set to permit 10
> Thanks
>
> Christian
>
>
>
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