[OT] sendmail equivalent of zmailer's MaxSameIpSource ??

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Dec 30 14:56:40 GMT 2004


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Look in CustomConfig.pm for the IPBlock stuff. It's all there, ready to
roll. There's even the associated cron job there for tidying up the
database.

paddy wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Can anyone point me at a sendmail equivalent of zmailer's MaxSameIPsource ?
>
>I want to limit the maximum number simultaneous connections from a single
>IP, as I've been hit several times over the last few days by 50+ connections
>from a single source that never complete.  A quick look at one IP on
>openrbl suggests this may be spam or virus related, and I will look deeper
>into the problem, but I'd like to put this safeguard in - OOM no fun :(
>
>

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