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Re: [milter-greylist] ratelimit feature mx sync

2013-02-02 by JUAN CARLOS SANCHEZ HERNANDEZ

El 2013-02-02 03:04, manu@... escribi�:
> JUAN CARLOS SANCHEZ HERNANDEZ juancarlos.sanchez@...> wrote:
>
>  > Let's suppose a limit of 1000 is specified and publised in 
> internal
>  > mail "Terms of use". In normal work, I can specify a ratelimit of 
> 500 in
>  > each server and the global limit will be more or less accomplished 
> (not
>  > perfectly, as the load balance is not). But if a server crashes or 
> is
>  > put offline for update/upgrade, the limit will be 500, too far of 
> the
>  > specified limit.
>
>  Right, so this is more a billing problem than a spam problem.
>
>  I'll take patch for the feature you request, but I am not going to
>  implement it on my own.At least not until I hit a spam problem :-)
>

Thanks for your reply.

Well, it may look like a billing problem, but I have come to this 
because of a spam problem. Never had though to have to put a limit to 
recipients but in last 2 months we have had a lot of user accounts 
compromised (people replying to forged "out of quota" messages and stuff 
like that) that have been used to send a lot of spam. And as the source 
IP of spam has usually been located in other countries,  have used 
ratelimit combined with geoip to impose ratelimit to messages whose 
sender IP is located in another country (no limit by now for users in my 
country) and webmail users.

Best Regards.

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