Notify Admin of User Sending High Volume of Mail

Eduardo Casarero ecasarero at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 01:19:45 IST 2008


check this http://www.milter.info/sendmail/milter-limit/ its for sendmail
but i think you could use it in postfix.

2008/9/22 Josh Kidd <jkidd at afflink.com>

>  Don't know if anyone else has attempted to do something like this before
> or not, I gave a scan to Google and the lists and didn't see anything. I
> have MailScanner setup on a FreeBSD7 machine running
> Postfix+MailScanner(SA,ClamAV)+Mailwatch. We are wanting to find a way that
> if a user's computer is infected and starts sending out a large number of
> emails in a short time frame (ie: 20,30,50 messages in 2-5 minutes).
>
>
>
> I assume this would have to be a custom ruleset but being new to
> MailScanner I don't know exactly how I would go about creating this rule.
> Has anyone done something like this or know's how to? I want MailScanner or
> Mailwatch to email me if a user's outbound mail volume exceeds our
> pre-defined limits so I can shutdown whatever is sending out the large
> volume of mail to prevent our domain from being blacklisted.
>
>
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> JK
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