Re: [IMail Forum] RE: Can't stop spammers using scripts in webmail

[Chris Langsenkamp]

Well what we have now is....   Max recipients per outbound message - trapped at SMTP level Max mailbox size and message count - quick read of MBX file   I think I can see Ipswitch's point, in that to further restrict account use by bytes used or counts of messages sent/received would require considerable extra overhead in processing to maintain and increment counters for every account on the system (picture a few thousand accounts) and resetting those all to zero at midnight.  This would impact performance and would probably lead to customer complaints (read 'make work') when they -need- to send out that one extra email to their favorite joke list, or they didn't get that email from their biggest customer containing a bonus-busting PO and lost a sale because they blew their limit on incoming spam.   Handling those kinds of support calls at 10pm doesn't sound too appealing.   ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Klinge To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:51 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] RE: Can't stop spammers using scripts in webmail > > Rick Godwin of snowboard.com: > > I visited your website and I see that you allow anyone to > sign up for free and get an instant email account on your > server.  You've opened Pandora's box and this is the result.  > Blaming IMail for this little disaster isn't quite fair. > I still support the idea of having a 3 tier, adjustable per user, outbound email limit.  Would also be nice to chain/link this with the email inbound storage limit as well. Ie: 1) unlimited in/out - 2) 20meg in / 1000 out - 3) 10meg in / 25 emails out. ~Rick