Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:04:24 -0500 From: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Best way to restrict mass emails? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20020127095204.00985b50@pop.netzero.net>
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HI again all. Quick question. In order to prevent people from using our outgoing mail server for spamming people even if they are on a legitimately allowed IP, I want to put in mailing limits. How would I best go about this? I want to restrict the total number of people per email that can be quoted in the TO: CC: and BCC: fields as well as limit the total number of emails they can send out in a 1 hour period to 20 each. But at the same time I don't want to interfere with any of the mailing lists and clog them up or cause a backlog of mail in them because they've reached their mailing quota for that particular 1 hour period. And while I have it on my mind. Is there a way via sendmail that I can restrict a given user to X number of emails total per day while not affecting others, or vice versa? Thanks all. I'm just letting the wheels spin a little today. It's a slow sunday. Short summery: 1. Restrict users to 20 emails per hour/20 total recipients per message. 2. No restrictions on mailing lists at all. (except maybe in rare instances) 2. Give certain users completely different mailing preferences or restrictions/privileges while not affecting the group as a whole. Thanks again all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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