This article allows you to set a global setting for maximum recipients per
message, which effectively limits internal spam from any and all customers.
This also stops the big log jam that can occur as the result of a
propagating worm which tries to mail itself out to everyone in a victim's
address book.
http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/IM-19990805-DM02.htm
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Ulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spam-Happy Customer
> Thanks. I actually found the tool about 1/2 hour ago and will
> give it a try. I think this guy's problem isn't that he is a spammer,
> but that he has MANY sites for the same service, has people
> sign up for info, and periodically sends that info out. Of course,
> people forget and rant. In his case, he does deal with a lot
> of people, so the 0.1% that forget end up being a big number.
>
> In any event, we're trying to get him down to one domain for all
> messages, and put in a better header reminding them it is an
> opt-in, how they are involved/where it is coming from,
> and not make it look like just a regular piece of junk mail.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> At 10:26 AM 2/22/2001, you wrote:
> > > if we have to, we will take away their email privileges completely,
> > > but would rather see if we can turn it into a "mail volume" issue
> > > and if they send more than 50 emails/day or 1MB of email or
> > > something, then it shuts them down.
> > >
> > > Is there anything in place like this?
> >
> >Not that I am aware of, although we are working on something similar to
> >this. It would restrict the amount of E-mails that could be sent per
> >hour, and once that limit was reached, it would stop delivering the
> >E-mails until you had a chance to look at them.
> >
> > > And that said, does anyone know of a good log analysis tool where
> > > we can scan through our logs and see how much mail this chowder-
> > > head has been sending?
> >
> >If he is using a domain of his own, you can use our free "Domain Lister"
> >tool at http://www.declude.com/tools to show how many outgoing/incoming
> >E-mails he has sent/received.
> >
> >
> >--
> > -Scott
> >
> >Declude: Anti-virus and Anti-spam solutions for IMail.
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