Re: Throttling incoming email

2012-02-03 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a fedora15 installation with postfix-2.8.7 and would like to throttle the message rate for incoming mail from senders like constantcontact and other bulk senders. I've read about greylisting, but I'm not sure what's what I'm looking for, due to the inherent side-effects. The

Re: Throttling incoming email

2012-02-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.02.2012 13:45, schrieb Alex: I had previously done something like this with iptables, but it was mostly ineffective: iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update

Re: Throttling incoming email

2012-02-03 Thread Noel Jones
On 2/3/2012 6:45 AM, Alex wrote: Hi, I have a fedora15 installation with postfix-2.8.7 and would like to throttle the message rate for incoming mail from senders like constantcontact and other bulk senders. I've read about greylisting, but I'm not sure what's what I'm looking for, due to

Re: Throttling incoming email

2012-02-03 Thread Alex
Hi, I had previously done something like this with iptables, but it was mostly ineffective: iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds 20 --hitcount 5 -j

Re: Throttling incoming email

2012-02-03 Thread Noel Jones
On 2/3/2012 2:32 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I had previously done something like this with iptables, but it was mostly ineffective: iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent

Re: Throttling incoming email

2012-02-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.02.2012 21:32, schrieb Alex: Hi, I had previously done something like this with iptables, but it was mostly ineffective: iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent

Throttling incoming email

2012-02-02 Thread Alex
Hi, I have a fedora15 installation with postfix-2.8.7 and would like to throttle the message rate for incoming mail from senders like constantcontact and other bulk senders. I've read about greylisting, but I'm not sure what's what I'm looking for, due to the inherent side-effects. Is it

Re: Throttling incoming email

2012-02-02 Thread Noel Jones
On 2/2/2012 4:39 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I have a fedora15 installation with postfix-2.8.7 and would like to throttle the message rate for incoming mail from senders like constantcontact and other bulk senders. I've read about greylisting, but I'm not sure what's what I'm looking for, due to