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Re: [milter-greylist] Re: Possible SMTP RCPT flood, throttling and confBAD_RCPT_THROTTLE

2019-06-07 by Marcus Schopen

Am 7.6.2019 03:00, schrieb yahoo@... [milter-greylist]:
>> Somehow, greylisting seems to be evaluated as "bad recipient" by
>> confBAD_RCPT_THROTTLE, which seems to be wrong in this case.
> 
> confBAD_RCPT_THROTTLE sets the maximum number of connections permitted
> per second per sendmail daemon. After this many connections are
> accepted, sendmail delays further connections.
> 
> It does not have anything to do with milter-greylist.

I don't think that's right. From sendmail docs: "If set and more than 
the specified number of recipients in an envelope are rejected, sleep 
for one second after each rejected RCPT command."

It's about rejected recipients and not about connections permitted per 
second. This causes sendmail to react incorrectly to the "reject" of its 
own milter.

Ciao
Marcus

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