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List:       qmail-ldap
Subject:    Re: number of mails
From:       Andre Oppermann <oppermann () pipeline ! ch>
Date:       2000-06-08 18:59:04
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Van Liedekerke Franky wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> does anybody ever considered limitting the number of mails a user can send
> in a specific amount of time? Now I do this by crossing through the smtp
> logfiles every minute and counting the number of "rcpt to" for a ip addres
> a,d using tcpserver to block this address if over the limit.
> But this is not enoug any more: my bosses now want to give some users more,
> but since we work with dhcp ...
> So I need a way to retrieve the number of ways a user can send out of ldap
> and let smtpd do the calculation. I thought using authenticated smtp would
> help me but it doesn't seem to...
> Anybody has any ideas?

Yes, buy your boss a real brain! Why would anybody limit the number
of mails an employee can send a day??

puzzled
-- 
Andre

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