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We have rate limiting for 404s turned on and have it set to block. Wordfence will send us an email when it blocks an IP address. When we get a string of 404s from an IP address and Wordfence starts blocking, it’s not uncommon for it to send something like 12 emails within less than 1 minute alerting us of it blocking it (all for the same IP address on the same website).
Is that normal? I’d expect just one email alerting us of the block, not several in rapid succession. Or are we going to have to turn off the Wordfence block emails altogether to avoid issues?
The problem we run into is our email sender (Amazon SES) sees that as suspicious and blocks sending to the destination address we use for Wordfence emails.
Thanks for any insight.