On 2010/09/01 06:09 PM, Xueshan Feng wrote:
> 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?

You would be blocked until 10:00am, i'm not really sure where you get 
those other times from.

> 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?

It's a rolling 2 hour window. You can send 100 messages in that 2 hour 
window.

> 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.

The abuse flag triggers when more than 100 messages have attempted to be 
sent
within that rolling 2 hour window.

Cami
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