Feature Request

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 25 21:47:34 GMT 2004


At 21:25 25/03/2004, you wrote:
>Julian,
>     Is it possible for MailScanner to track how many emails have been sent
>from a particular client over a specified time period? If so, some method of
>clamping or notification would be needed. As spam-bots and trojans become
>more advanced, I am afraid they will query the machines wich they have
>infected for its outbound smtp server instead of the worm/virus
>creating/using it's own smtp server.
>
>What do you think?

Look in CustomConfig.pm for IPBlock and you will find all the rate-limiting
code. It's all there, just needs switching on. Have a good read of the
comments at the start of the IPBlock code.
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