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Re: [milter-greylist] ratelimit feature mx sync

2013-02-01 by manu@...

Juan Carlos Sanchez <juancarlos.sanchez@...> wrote:

> I am using ratelimit feature to try to limit the amount of recipients a
> user may send (and this way trying to minimize spam sent through 
> compromised accounts)
> 
> Our mail service is separated in two servers under a hardware balancer,
> and both servers are MX Sync'ed under milter-greylist config file.
> 
> But it looks like info about recipients sent by a user is not shared 
> between servers, unless until the limit is reached in one of them.

Yes, I never implemented it because I never really hit a real problem
with the lack of MX ratelimit sync. Do you experience spammers that
cleverly distribute the load on your MX in order to evade ratelimit?

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@...

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