Daniel Mayer [COUGA.net] wrote: > On Behalf Of Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães >> Daniel Mayer [COUGA.net] escreveu: >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are running postfix in an ISP mass-webhosting environment with >>> several customers per server. We'd like to limit the amount of >>> mail a user is allowed to send from its web pages (like php, cgi >>> scripts etc.). Processes of all users are running under unique >>> system users and therefore an accounting on this level would be >>> very useful for us as all these mail originate from 127.0.0.1. >>> >> So, why not stop relaying even for 127.0.0.1 and get all your >> customers to authenticate on the SMTP server ? > > If the user has to authenticate to send a mail he can not just use > the built-in PHP mail() function e.g.. As out customers are not > necessarily skilled enough or don't want to bother with writing > authentication code especially for ready-to-run applications as CMS, > weblogs, shop-systems etc. this is a major issue. All these use the > default mail function. Or am I missing something here? > > I have to check if there exists kind of a wrapper through which I can > send the email (instead of the usual sendmail binary interface) which > does the authentication transparently for the user. This could use an > account which is predefined by us and can be traced to a customer > account. > > Thanks for your ideas, Daniel
Good luck with that. I also wanted to point out that what you want to do cannot be done via the policyd server, nor a policy service. The processID or UID is not provided by postfix to the policy server. You'll have to investigate these other alternatives. john ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ policyd-users mailing list policyd-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/policyd-users
