On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, John W Baxter wrote:
> At 9:53 +0000 12/5/00, Smith, A.D. wrote:
> >we have a computer on the network (a Macintosh) which every 4-6 months
> >decides that it wants to repeat e-mailing ... it sends thousands of copies
> >of the original e-mail per minute, is there any way to restrict the number
> >of e-mails sent per minute from a particular user, or, more importantly,
> >alert the systems admin team based on frequency?
> >
> >Unfortunately we do have to support this system (it always seems to be
> >produced by the same user, but on one of a set of systems), and telling the
> >user to change over to PCs/ Jump off a bridge are not options.
>
> Switching away from Mac wouldn't be the answer, anyhow. There is a Windows
Switching from Mac to Windows wouldnt be the answer, no.
Switching from Mac to, say, Unix/Exim might be ;-) Of course, that
would require someone with a clue to administer it.
> user at one of the counties in our service area who periodically spews
> repeated copies of a message with a 1+ meg attachment at one of our users.
> The first time, I blocked mail from the county server until they fixed the
> problem...the second time it was fixed on their end before I could act (I
> was going to write a user filter the second time).
>
> --John
>
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