Re: [exim] Sender rate limiting based on recipient address?

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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Sender rate limiting based on recipient address?
On 16/10/15 15:50, Osborne, Paul (paul.osborne@???) wrote:
> At this point I am thinking about implementing rate limiting on the basis of a sender being able to send X number of mails per unique recipient email address per day - to reduce the flow enough so that things start to back up a bit internally and my monitoring can spot when this happens.
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> However looking at the rate limiting config in Exim although I can it seems limit the amount of recipients that a sender can mail to, I cannot see that I can limit the amount of mails that a user can send to individual recipients. It may be the case that I am failing to parse the documentation and for that I apologise, but if anyone has a suggestion on how to do this I would appreciate it.


Use a key for the ratelimit lookup built from both the sender and
recipient.
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Cheers,
Jeremy