On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, David Champion wrote:
> * On 2006.03.09, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> * "Hugh Sasse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Getting users to change their behaviour is another story altogether,
> > of course :-)
>
> In addition to architectural considerations, you might want to try the
> HAPPYMAIL patch I developed to address the problem of changing user
> behavior.
>
> http://home.uchicago.edu/~dgc/sw/qpopper/index.html
To summarize: It rate limits the permitted popping attempts as a
linear function of mailbox size with an initial amount of space for
free, and a minimum time interval between requests.
>
> This page and the software are a bit out of date, as we no longer use
> Qpopper in production, but I don't anticipate that adapting the patch to
> current Qpopper code would be all that hard. I'd be glad to answer any
> questions you have.
Has anyone on the list done that already?
This looks like exactly what I need. Thank you.
Hugh
