[Mimedefang] OT: sendmail limit connections

[Ben Kamen]

-ray wrote:
> 
> I have max daemon children set to 250.  Occasionally one machine will 
> open 250 connections, probably spamming, so sendmail stops new connections.
> 
> Is there a sendmail way to limit # of connections by ip address?

  In /etc/mail/access

      ClientConn:<ip addr>	<limit rate>


See the README file in ./cf for more options...

this is a sendmail thing, not a mimedefang thing.

Hope that's what you needed.

  -Ben