Thank you for your quick response.
Just finally got around to writing that up yesterday, so glad I could use it so quickly. :)
If I was to make a for loop (from i to 1,000,000) and send a 10Mb file to people with email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve1, steve2, steve3, etc).
Well... why would someone do probing with a 10mb file? Are you talking about DOS or spamming as I was trying to point out in my wiki page that the two are very different profiles.
I would think a spammer is more likely to probe with a 2k message and then once they found the legit address, send 1,000,000 copies of a 10Mb file to the valid address, and then you've got a tougher situation to address.
James would accept all of that bandwidth (all of those 10 Mb files first). So it seems like whoever has a larger bandwidth pipe wins. If you are getting billed at 95% though this could hurt you. Of course a system administrator should catch this though
If you are getting billed, then that would suck. However, I can't see why someone would send you that many large files. Spammers send smaller messages deferring bandwidth load to externally referenced images.
In the link that was sent it did mention "basic message-rate cap". Something like a simple iptable rule do you mean? Or is there something extra in James.
To date we've relied on iptable or network/hardware support to do this, but it's on some drawing board to support throttling in James. sendmail does it, and we figure we should immitate.
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