Re: [exim] where to manage ratelimited accounts ?

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Author: Dave Lugo
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] where to manage ratelimited accounts ?
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011, SW & Work SaS wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> looking around in the maillist archive I've seen a couple of ideas to manage
> (warn/block) accounts that send too fast or have too many errors in the
> period of time using the ratelimit condition
> but I've not clear where these information are stored.
>
> If, for example,
> I ratelimit a user that send more than 100 email for hour
> the count reach the limit
> and after 5 minutes I manage the things and want to reenable the customer
> where should I delete/manage the archived data so to restart the count ?
>



You can either adjust the acl in which you ratelimit that
user, so that ratelimiting isn't checked for that user, or
modify the ratelimit database using exim_fixdb, so that the
ratelimit check occurs, but the user isn't detected as over
the limit.


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