Feature Request

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Thu Apr 12 06:38:30 IST 2007


On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jay Chandler wrote:

> Recently had a user account become compromised and start spewing spam.
>
> Is there any functionality within MailScanner that can alert me once one user 
> sends more than a predefined number of messages in a given time period?  If 
> not, I'd dearly love to see this implemented...

>From my observation it seems that infested machines do the SMTP bit 
themselves. So they will not bother to use your SMTP server.

You need to block SMTP from anyone but acknowledged and well controlled 
servers in your network.

Hugo.

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