[Mimedefang] OT: sendmail limit connections

[Arthur Corliss]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, David F. Skoll wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Arthur Corliss wrote:
>
> > > Is there a sendmail way to limit # of connections by ip address?
>
> > The code base for poprelayd could do that quite simply.  Just tail the logs
> > and update a db with a connection count per IP.  You'd have to modify the
> > ruleset a bit, but all in all, that would be pretty easy.
>
> Sendmail 8.13 can do it natively.  Check the "conncontrol" and
> "ratecontrol" features.

I haven't read the cf docs in some time.  I assume you're not referring to the
global confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE?

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