[imp] child permissions

[Kevin Konowalec]

Hi Andy!


On Nov 5, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Andrew Morgan wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Kevin Konowalec wrote:
>
>> We've got imp set up with permissions to restrict the max  
>> recipients per message and max recipients per time period.  But I'm  
>> not seeing a way to change what the consequence of that is... is  
>> there someplace we can change the banning period, for example, from  
>> 24 hours to 1 hour or 48 hours or something like that?
>
> It doesn't work like a password lockout mechanism does.  When IMP  
> goes to send a message, it does a SELECT on the imp_sentmail table  
> in your database to find out how many messages/recipients there were  
> in the last X hours for your user.  If there are more than the max  
> recipients limit, sending is denied.  So think of it like a sliding  
> window.
>



Right!  What we want (or what I'm being asked about) is being able to  
arbitrarily change X, thereby shrinking or expanding the window.




>> Also, is there a mechanism in place where the admin can be emailed  
>> when someone gets into this trap?
>
> Not that I've seen, but it is pretty trivial to script that.


The way we did it in previous versions was to hack the source and spew  
a message to the logs (which then got picked up by syslog-ng) when a  
user hit their limit.  I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that...


> Here is a perl script I use to show "heavy" users:


Thanks!  I'll give that a try!

Kevin