[OT] Mail user bandwidth monitoring

Dee Lowndes dee at ASYOUNEED.COM
Fri Nov 14 18:00:15 GMT 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
> Sent: 14 November 2003 17:21
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [OT] Mail user bandwidth monitoring
>
> Dee Lowndes wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a way to monitor a mail user's bandwidth usage
or
> > even better a package that can monitor bandwidth usage for a user no
> > matter what the service hosted on a Linux/Unix server?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dee
>
> Depends on how the user is identified. Probably looking at something
> very expensive for sure to do kernal level resource auditing. CA / IBM
> prob have something .
>

There is bound to be an Open source project or two somewhere that does
it as ISP's all monitor their clients usage of bandwidth for charging
purposes.

Dee



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