max connection rate/count/limit issues.

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max connection rate/count/limit issues.
\ Christian Parpart (31 May 2007)
. \ lst_hoe01 (31 May 2007)
. . \ Martin Strand (31 May 2007)

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Subject:	max connection rate/count/limit issues.
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Christian Parpart
Date:	31 May 2007

Hi guys,

I'm having trouble in getting rid of the following syslog messages:

May 31 13:24:12 sparta postfix/anvil[13045]: statistics: max connection rate
2/60s for (smtp:140.211.166.183) at May 31 13:19:21
May 31 13:24:12 sparta postfix/anvil[13045]: statistics: max connection count
1 for (smtp:140.211.166.183) at May 31 13:17:45
May 31 13:24:12 sparta postfix/anvil[13045]: statistics: max cache size 3 at
May 31 13:18:22

it looks like a mailserver who forwards some mails for me right into the
sparta host is becoming trouble because of it's high traffic amount.

Now, I'd like to increase the connection rate/count/limit,
but using $(postconf | grep ...) doesn't seem to show up me the very obvious
variables I should modify.

Can someone either quickly point me to the right documentation fragment or
just telle me what config vars are responsible for this?

Thanks in advance,
Christian Parpart.