Can I limit messages per period of time per user?

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 29 August 2003 8:32 pm, Jason Balicki wrote:

> Is there a way that I can configure MailScanner
> to only allow, say, 2 messages every 5 minutes per user?
> (The numbers are arbitrary -- hopefully you get where
> I'm going with this.)

I think that genuine spam is so often sent out *from* different addresses
(for each message) that this wouldn't be an effective test.

If you had a user in your network sending out messages more then one per
minute (as fast as I can imagine anyone effectively replying to things), then
I would suspect their computer has a worm/virus infection (which may be
useful to know about, but hopefully you pick this up by other means already).

I don't think a genuine spammer would get caught this way, because of the
multiple source addresses they tend to use.

Therefore I don't see it as a desirable feature to consider including in
MailScanner.

Regards,

Antony

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