Re: limit mail() function

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 escrit:

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Greg Bowser <topnotcher@gmail.com> 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 involving multiple options would do the trick; I don't claim to be a postfix expert. Perhaps, instead of making empty statements, you might choose to enlighten me as per the exact configuration that will accomplish this. Of course, I spent some time googling, but it appears that not too many people know (or at least write about) how to implement such functionality.

Not being a sysadmin I can't tell you HOW to do it, but I can tell you that nearly every shared-hosting service I have worked with implements some level of throttling such that an account on that machine cannot send more than some set number of messages per hour whether directly through local SMTP or through sendmail, mail(), etc., so I know it CAN be done, and it appears that more than a few people know how to do it. Andrew