Re: Best method to throttle mail to one user

2009-03-24 Thread Costin Guşă
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:14 AM, jeffs wrote: [...] > However, rather than building (for me) a difficult query I > thought there might be a mechanism in Postfix which could be used to stop a > sudden increase of outbound emails. > put all outbound mail on the hold queue by default. periodically

OT Re: Best method to throttle mail to one user

2009-03-23 Thread Terry Carmen
jeffs wrote: Sahil Tandon wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, jeffs wrote: There is the slight potential for abuse by these logged in users that one or two may figure out a way to send spam through this system by forging (not login) credentials that the database uses to sort out outbound email

Re: Best method to throttle mail to one user

2009-03-23 Thread jeffs
Sahil Tandon wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, jeffs wrote: There is the slight potential for abuse by these logged in users that one or two may figure out a way to send spam through this system by forging (not login) credentials that the database uses to sort out outbound email. This

Re: Best method to throttle mail to one user

2009-03-23 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, jeffs wrote: > There is the slight potential for abuse by these logged in users that > one or two may figure out a way to send spam through this system by > forging (not login) credentials that the database uses to sort out > outbound email. This is really shady. Why c

Re: Best method to throttle mail to one user

2009-03-23 Thread Terry Carmen
jeffs wrote: I have a postfix system set up that works fine (well, maybe that is because it is not totally on-line yet :-\ ). But testing has been great. Once it goes live this system is going to be used to send email alerts to users based on certain database activity. Actually, a script whi

Best method to throttle mail to one user

2009-03-23 Thread jeffs
I have a postfix system set up that works fine (well, maybe that is because it is not totally on-line yet :-\ ). But testing has been great. Once it goes live this system is going to be used to send email alerts to users based on certain database activity. Actually, a script which runs again