Ken Jones writes:
> Sure, depends on how you want to set things up.
>
> But I would worry about something else. Mail Bombs. Your supervisor
> is worried about being mail bombed. I would worry more about being
> able to detect that then vpopmail allowing the machine to fill up.
That's the term! Mailbomb.
> Think about it:
> It would take 1,000 messages of 1K each to eat up 1M of disk space.
> Presumably you have more than 10M free space. So it would take,
> 10,000 messages to create 10M of disk space.
> Your admin's should be able to detect such a spike in email
> traffic long before your disk space is eaten up.
How do the admin detect that? Our site does not have any IDS mechanism. Any
other mailserver side control or filter (apart from the individual mailbox
filter)?
> I suggest your boss concentrates on where the problems are instead
> of trying to kludge together solutions that he has never experienced.
Such as ...
> Becareful, don't design around emotions. Check facts, get statistics,
> then create your design.
OK, thanks for the valuable advice.
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