hi,
thanks for all your opinions and suggestions, i'll have a look at all of
them to see if i can implement a restricted system for mail() functions.
I'll report back in a few days to let you know if i've come up with
something that really works.
Thanks for all.
En/na Andrew Ballard ha
hello everyone,
first of all... i'm sorry if this has been asked like a million times
before... but i've been looking for info about this and found nothing so
far.
anyway
I've got a server with apache2 and postfix and php5 providing hosting to
some clients. I've got this big problem
Jordi Moles wrote:
I've got a server with apache2 and postfix and php5 providing hosting
to some clients. I've got this big problem about clients sending spam
massively, either consciously or because they website have been
hacked. The main way to spam is by using the mail() function.
So far,
As far as I know, there's no way you can do this via PHP.
PHP doesn't know about users on the system. Generally, PHP is run as an
apache module, and thus the scripts are run as the user apache is running
as.
So to start with, you'd probably need to be running a Fast CGI + SuExec
setup or
Greg Bowser wrote:
I'm not sure how, or if there is a way to do this in postfix. The
mail() function calls the sendmail binary, so one sort of hackish way
might be to move this binary and write a wrapper script that keeps
track of per-user rate limits, and then invokes the real sendmail
Pardon me, but that's one kludgy idea
Hence my use of the term hackish. But really, is isn't all that
kludgy. An software solution that implements this natively would have
to keep track of the stats somehow; undoubtely via some sort of stats
file. So the real difference is that two processes are
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Greg Bowser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
postfix has rate-limitation facilities you can use for this
I'm aware of several configuration directives that limit rate, none of
which directly limit the send rate local users. Perhaps some kludgly
or elusive trick
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