From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 27 8:49: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raiden.jasnetworks.net (raiden.jasnetworks.net [65.194.248.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADD437B404 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 08:49:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from works ([192.168.0.2]) by raiden.jasnetworks.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0RExgj07830 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:59:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from raiden23@netzero.net) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20020127095204.00985b50@pop.netzero.net> X-Sender: raiden23@pop.netzero.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:04:24 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Lord Raiden Subject: Best way to restrict mass emails? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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