On Tuesday 14 June 2005 19:53, Bruno Negrão wrote: > Wouldn't the string NOQUOTA be exactly in the place where there is a 60MB > in my example above?
Yes, sorry. I'm blind! > But this feature is still useful I'm not sure how...what is the use you see? How on earth do you really intend to stop these people from sending mail? You have to force them to use your SMTP server, and block nearly all of their access to the internet to ensure they can't send E-mail, and you better hope they don't go home and send mail from their work account from there. If it's an attempt to increase productivity, it won't work. At every corporation I've been at that has network restrictions, the majority of people spend more time trying to get their work done around them than anything else. The last one I worked at had only ports 80 and 443 open, which made everything really difficult to do. You'd hear people talking on the phone complaining about "the d*** firewall" and related problems all day long. Those of us who were more technical set up SSH servers on port 80 and tunneled everything anyways. You can do that even on a Windows machine without local administrative rights, which I later just took home and formatted out of frustration (after that I worked much more efficiently ;-) ). > there are commercial mail servers providing it There are commercial mail servers providing lots of things that are bad ideas. And most mail servers have at least one oddball feature that you won't find in any other package. One of my favorite quotes is "It is better not to do something than to do it poorly." (from Andreas Hanssen, author of BincIMAP). This is one of those things that cannot be done well because of how the SMTP mail infrastructure works. If it only works 90% of the time, that's what I call "broken", or a flawed idea. > so I want to be able to do this with qmail and vpopmail (or other add-on > software that can do this in place of vpopmail) Well it's certainly possible to create something...likely you won't want to accept these at the SMTP level at all, so the best solution I can think of would be to write a custom SMTP server like rblmstpd that instead of checking RBLs, checked a local database for an allowed recipient domains list for the account trying to send, or simply a boolean external value as you propose. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | http://casey.shobe.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cell 425-443-4653 AIM & Yahoo: SomeLinuxGuy | ICQ: 1494523 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com
