eric what you suggest would be the best
i was thinking of modifying what we had in our hands unfortunately getting people to modify qmail is extremely difficult out here. by the way any idea on if it is possible to have a separate badmailfrom file for the authenticated smtp service on port 25. basically i want to stop all my authenticated users from using port 25 rajesh > I'd rather see a more targeted approach. > > I'm thinking of having an SendInterval value that can be specified as > global, per-domain, and per-user. There would also be a .lastsent file > in each user's account folder which would contain the time that the most > recent message was sent from that user's account. The qmail-remote > program would check each message before sending to see if the interval > (user or domain or global) since the previous message from that user had > been met. If not, the message would be re-queued, and if so, it would be > sent. > > This would allow admins control and flexibility as to how much email > leaves the server. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > On 05/02/2013 10:42 AM, Rajesh M wrote: >> hi eric >> >> can the qmail isolog tool be used for this >> >> i believe it runs every hour or so and the calculates the number of sent >> and recd emails >> >> we can make the qmail log file size small to say 500 kb each and run the >> isoqlog every minute which will provide us the number of emails being >> sent >> out >> >> and then we can chk if the from email id is continously repeated then we >> know that spamming is going on and we can use vpopmail mysql database to >> stop outgoing email smtp emails >> >> any idea if this is a feasible option ? >> >> rajesh >> >> >> >>> On 05/01/2013 11:42 AM, Rajesh M wrote: >>>> 3) control the number of emails sent per user -- is there any solution >>>> for >>>> this ? >>> >>> I would like to see a throttle put on qmail-remote, and idea I came >>> across at gmane.org (they do this). This would go a long way toward >>> protecting the associated public IP address from becoming blacklisted. >>> Such a throttle would be fairly simple to code (imo), but someone needs >>> to do it. >>> >>> -- >>> -Eric 'shubes' >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com >>> For additional commands, e-mail: >>> qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com >> For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com >> >> > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com > For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com
