At 10:32 PM Sunday 4/11/99, Matthew Harrell wrote:
>: Above and beyond the standard reporting programs -qstat and -qread, I
>: haven't heard of anything especially. The question is, how do you want to
>: constrain users?
>:
>: Is it X message per day, X messages in the queue at any one time, X
>: megabytes per day, X megabytes in the queue at any one time? Will you need
>: to keep a history of what they have done? Will you want to differentiate
>: between users such as any lists or system processes you're running?
>
>At the moment, I was thinking of X MB in the queue at any one time.
Right. Well, there is nothing "out there" that I know of. You'll have to
write stuff. Given that they submit almost everything from "some automated
interfaces", you should be able to capture them fairly easily.
You're problem is that qmail-qread doesn't give you enough information to
determine the true origin of the email, you'll have to look inside each
message to determine the uid and/or the source IP address. Relying on the
sender address is of course, a very weak form of identification unless your
automation processes generate that in an unforgeable way.
Regards.
