[77742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Blayzor)
Thu Feb 3 15:35:08 2005
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:34:43 -0500
From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050203201612.GD1422603@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Chris Adams wrote:
> What does that have to do with SMTP rate limiting?
A lot since the original question was:
> Do you let your customers send an unlimited number of
> emails per day? Per hour? Per minute? If so, then why?
and an answer was:
> Because there are *NO* packages available that offer limiting.
> Free or commercial.
So I corrected it, software is available that allows you limit/tarpit
SMTP connections as well as limit a number of messages a user can send
in a given time period.
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