On 19-Mar-2009, at 04:44, Wietse Venema wrote:
LuKreme:
My server is pretty light weight, and I don't tend to get too many
floods of spammers, but are these defaults reasonable to mitigate the
damage that a flood might do? Are these defaults anything a normal
user is ever going to hit?
A normal user is NEVER going to hit these limits. As documented,
anvil is for out-of-control clients. It is not a traffic quota
tool, and must not be used for that purpose.
OK, but if the numbers were lowered to ... oh, say
smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit = 8
smtpd_client_connection_count_limit = 20
A normal user is still never going to hit them I'd think.
Obviously, on a large server with a LAN or a lot of people maybe
behind a single IP those numbers wouldn't work.
OTOH, I'm not changing anything at this point.
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