On 22/11/2006 10:37, Deepak Kapoor wrote: > that means if somebody is sending millions of email to a non exitant > email id then there will be increase in overall bandwidth but no log
Not really: if someone is sending to a non-existant email id, exim will refuse the email before the body part of the message is transferred, so only a few hundred bytes of bandwidth will be used, and the log will show that exim refused to accept an email. > On 11/22/06, Ian FREISLICH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> No, for some reason exim doesn't log the size of rejected mails, Because usually it can't, it hasn't received the email yet. >> so for instance if a message is rejected after data by an ACL, there >> will be no size logged in mainlog unless the administrator specifically >> does something like: >> >> log_message = This message contains malware ($malware_name) >> S=$message_size for $recipients >> >> For cases where the rejection may involve significant bandwidth. This would be rare and would depend on having a specialised configuration which does reject after DATA and doesn't log *anything* from the sound of what Deepak's saying. Cheers, John. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
