Wycliffe Bahati wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 13:25, Ron McKeating wrote:
>
>>Hi all, we are looking at a way of only allowing certain people to send
>>email at certain time, eg out of hours. This would be useful for say
>>allowing the students union to send out ents information, which goes to
>>all students and could put a very large load on the server during
>>working hours.
>>
>>Just wondering if anybody has already done this before we re-invent the
>>wheel.
>>
>>Ron
>>
>
> Hi
> I guess you could make use of iptables and a script to allow and
> disallow smtp connections at certain times.
>
> Wycliffe
>
>
Looks like these, or any 'broadcast' funtionality should really be
(probably already ARE) in a Mailing List Manager.
That toolset should already have a mechanism for controlling delivery
time - or one (such as a 'digest' function) that can be utilized to the
same effect. Sub-lists may be called for.
Using that built-in, or scripting a time-window for it, would probably
be easier and 'safer' than messing with Exim - which one supposes must
continue to be a 24x7 service for all other mail.
