On 24/06/2019 19:35, mixed8e--- via Exim-users wrote: > What would be the Exim setting to limit the number of TCP connections? Or > is it a bad idea to limit connections like that? I do know at least one > group of users of this server sit behind a single IP address, so the > connection count for that IP address is very high. Does that mean I can't > approach the problem from this angle? (short of whitelisting known > addresses)
There's several different ways of limiting load. You'll need to read the docs. For basics, smtp_accept_max, smtp_accept_max_per_host, smtp_reserve_hosts. http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-main_configuration.html#SECTalomo -- Cheers, Jeremy -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/