On 09/01/10 16:09, Xueshan Feng wrote:
> I am still running v1.
>
> I wonder how the block expiration time is calculated.  
>
> Suppose my message quota is 100, my time limit is 2 hours.
>
> I started sending email at 8am. If I reached my quota at 9:50am, will I be 
> blocked until 10:00am or 11:50am? 
>
> It seems that the expiration time is calculated by _date + _time_limit field 
> in policyd database throttle table. The _date is the time of the first 
> message. 
>
> Then I would only be blocked for 10 minutes instead of two hours starting 
> from when the abuse
> occured? So in theory I can time it so that I'd never be blocked if I hit the 
> limit near the time limit mark?
>
> Or did I miss understand how does it work? I'd like to be able to block based 
> on the time abuse started, not when the timer started. 
>
> Xueshan 
>   

As far as I know there is a detailed post to the mailing list with how
its done, check the  archives, I you cannot find it I'll search for it.

Starting to think we need a FAQ on the site to address some topics like
this :)

-- 
Regards
Nigel Kukard


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