On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:59:06PM +0200, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> i'm wondering if it really worths the hassle. a simple smtp that can
> send mail is not a big thing to throw together; as long as your users
> can do socket operations, you're not really gaining anything, if i
> understand your goal right.
Then can do socket operations, but I'm sure they're much more likely
to open a pipe to sendmail/exim!
The problems I'm trying to work around are customers who do something
similar to:
<pseudocode>
open (FH, "database_of_my_customers");
while (<FH>)
{
open (MAIL, "|/path/to/sendmail $_");
print MAIL, "What I want to send to my customers");
close (MAIL);
}
close (FH);
</pseudocode>
where the number of customers is sufficient to cause a problem on
the host.
Basically, some users take it into their head to treat the
webserver as a mailserver. I can sort of see their logic, they
collect customer email addresses from their website - store them -
and then occasionally decide to spam them via a CGI.
All I'm trying to do is limit the impact such behaviour could
cause. If that's not going to be possible with Exim I'll just leave
it as it is.
Thanks,
Ollie
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Oliver Cook Systems Administrator, ClaraNET
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