Re: help with how to drop connection on syntax error

Sander Smeenk via Exim-users <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2026 09:07:21 +0200
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Quoting v via Exim-users ([email protected]):
> Hi.
> I was hoping someone here could help me with this.  How can I make
> exim DROP the connection faster, in response to being dos flooded with
> gibberish.

https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-main_configuration.html

Do you mean smtp_accept_max_nonmail ?

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