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Re: Spammers hapless fate = ISP toil and sweat

  • To: Adrian Bool < >
  • From: "Neil J. McRae" < >
  • Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:59:25 +0100
  • Cc: "Keith C. Howell" < >
    Luis Miguel Sequeira < >
    Nick Hilliard < >
    Espen Vestre < >
    "Neil J. McRae" < >
  • Reply-to: "Neil J. McRae" < >
  • Resent-date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:21:15 +0200
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On Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:48:45 +0100 (BST) 
 Adrian Bool aid@localhost wrote:

> One soluton that I aiming for (not implemented yet!) is tying our SMTP
> server into our database.  When a customer connects, we look them
> up in teh db based upon the MAIL FROM:<> value.  from the db is 
> returned a max limit of RCPTs that the user may issue for a single
> mail. New accounts can be given a value of 15 and incremented automatically
> by say 10 each month as our trust of them develops.  If people want to
> run mailing lists etc.. then they can phone/email us and we can manually
> up the limit, after making appropriate checks first.
> 

We do this with qmail.

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