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List:       qmail-ldap
Subject:    RE: number of mails
From:       Peter Deacon <peterd () iea-software ! com>
Date:       2000-06-09 14:56:23
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Van Liedekerke Franky wrote:

> 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

Most good firewalls have proxies that can do this...for just about any
service.

Have Fun!
Peter

> > ----------
> > 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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