Author: Marius Stan Date: To: Graeme Fowler, exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] default ratelimit
On 9/14/2015 3:08 PM, Graeme Fowler wrote: > On 14 Sep 2015, at 12:05, Marius Stan <mstan@???> wrote:
>> I have the following snippet running in acl_check_rcpt, which limits authenticated users to a number of messages per hour:
> If you have it in the RCPT ACL, it is run (and the database updated) for every RCPT TO command from the connecting system; not only that but in your provided ACL section it runs & updates *twice* per RCPT TO: Thanks for the tip. Does it mean that the rates I'm seeing are doubled
eg 10 instead of 5 ?
I've commented out the warn part so I'm left with just one ratelimit
command per RCPT_TO, which sound right to me. Sending the same message
to 10 users at once (which spammers usually tend to do) would render a
rate of 10 immediately.
