Well, I guess at the end of the day you are correct and it is a matter of Legitimate use, we all have sat and hammer on the "check new mail" button.
My original question has attracted two different ways to solve the problem of broadband users constantly checking for mail and thus increasing network traffics needlessly. and fulling the maillog The first idea is to process the maillog and automatically send request to the user to slow down the second is a patch to the pop3 server. The issue of Legitimate use I suspect would make us all lean towards the method of parsing the maillog. Thank you to though people who replied to the original question. Kind Regards Simon May ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: Users popping to often > ANother server I've used allowed you to set the connection rate > and, if exceeded, would just return a "no new mail" response. > > It's been rarely needed. What problem are you actually having? > > (With this server, it was pretty easy to handle 9000 users > at a time checking mail). > > I do know that when I'm waiting for a message (e.g. a customer > says he just sent me a log extract) I *will* hammer on the > "check new mail" button. Legitimate use.
