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List:       qmail-ldap
Subject:    RE: number of mails
From:       Van Liedekerke Franky <Franky.Van.Liedekerke () telenet ! be>
Date:       2000-06-09 7:44:53
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to limit mail abuse: if one user feels like it, he can send thousands of
mails, resulting in our mailserver being in a kind of ORBS list and our
mailserver being 
brought down because of the numbers of mail being sent/received/delivered

> ----------
> From: 	Andre Oppermann[SMTP:oppermann@pipeline.ch]
> Sent: 	Thursday, June 08, 2000 8:59 PM
> To: 	'qmail-ldap@argus.pipeline.ch'
> Subject: 	Re: number of mails
> 
> 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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