Re: Using iptables for throttling SMTP traffic

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Hi,

>>  My hope is to block hundreds of connections on my mail server from
>>  bulk mail senders like constantcontact, as well as the flood of
>>  connections from spam bots that are rejected by zen anyway.
>>
>>  How can I tell what rules are currently in place for a particular
>>  IP? In other words, I see log entries for the initial block, but it
>>  doesn't appear that an actual rule is added, correct?
>
> Why dont you do this at the application level. There many way to do this.

I have an older version of postfix that I can't upgrade right now, and
I don't think it supports this. I do realize this is the more
effective way to do it. I'd like to just get something working for the
time being.

Thanks,
Alex
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