Re: [exim] max messages per recipients

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Author: Matthew Newton
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To: Haynes, Jonathan
CC: exim-users@exim.org, 'Sujit Acharyya-choudhury'
Subject: Re: [exim] max messages per recipients
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 11:52:16AM +0000, Haynes, Jonathan wrote:
> We use ratelimit on outbound to protect against compromised
> accounts sending spam but we don't check inbound although
> obviously you could adapt this.
>
> This is used in conjunction with control = freeze


Ditto, though rather than freezing message on the separate
mailhubs (which is tedious to manage after a while) we just set an
ACL variable. This triggers a router to send them to a single
other host where the freeze happens. A copy of the mail gets
dropped into a mailbox for easy checking and release or delete (by
moving to other mailboxes, which a simple script checks and then
processes the exim queue).

The ACL variable is also set by custom ClamAV signatures,
anti-phishing-email-reply addresses, other rate-limit type logic
(built with exim ACLs), etc.

But ratelimit ACL rules are definitely the place to start, and can
be very effective even on their own.

Matthew


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