You might be best off hacking up your popd to achieve this. Have it look at last login time and spit out an "-ERR You are popping too often see http://blahblahblah";. Some clients will show this others won't.
As a shortcut you could pull some existing data out of mysql and send a nagging email to the abusers... C On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Jeremy Kister wrote: > Hi > > I've got vpopmail 5.2.1 on top of qmail 1.03 on a Solaris 2.7 SPARC machine. > > Everything is going well. I've noticed, though, that several of my users > are abusing my pop3 service, that is, that they are popping their email > every minute, 24 hours a day. > > this has not become a problem for my mail server performance as of yet, but > i'm being pro active. It is clearly stated in my aup that checking your > mail more than once every 5 minutes is unacceptable, and that once (or less > than) every 10 minutes is preferred. > > I'm wondering if anybody has implemented a method of making vchkpw only > allow one authentication per user per 5 minutes.. > > I'm looking for something that will not silently deny their connection, but > something that will actually make their mail client do something like pop up > a message, or pop up a username and password window.. just so that the > client knows that he's doing something wrong. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeremy Kister > www.jeremykister.com > PGP: http://www.jeremykister.com/jeremy/public_key.asc > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
