On 2014-10-31, Biju Abraham N. <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to ratelimit outgoing messages in my exim4 daemon. Many a times,
> our mail server has been hacked, multiple identity has been added and using
> those ids, hackers send out bulk spam mails. Once the limit is overcome,
> many domains are blacklisting us. As I understand from the manuals and
> searching the mailing lists, outgoing mails can not be ratelimited. Please
> correct me if I am wrong.
  
outgoing emails cannot not easily be ratelimited.

> What I am thinking is to rate limit using IP tables number of messages going
> out domain wise to some limit. 

how would iptables manage that.

I can only reject connections using IP
> tables. What I need is to defer the rejected connections. Where in the exim4
> do I do this? Is it in routers?

mainly it's in "retry".

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umop apisdn


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