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Re: Rate limit exim



This one time, at band camp, Rus Foster said:
> Hi,
> I've setup a free shell account server and so far so good. One thought
> that has come to me though it that I want to try to limit the chance of
> someone spamming from the service. As a first step I want to try to rate
> limit exim (then I will look at iptables). Looking over the config I can't
> see anything obvious and a google doesn't chuck up anything. Can anyone
> point me in the right direction?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Rus

Take a look at the various smtp_accept options in
/usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz - some combination of those ought to do
what you're looking for.  It's a long read, but well worth it in the
long run.

HTH,
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