Thanks Joe. I'll be looking to see if we can't do something like this 
with qmailtoaster.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

On 05/21/2012 02:54 PM, Joe Nelson wrote:
> I forgot to mention that I have a second cronjob that cleans up the
> abused accounts list daily:
>
> 30 6 * * * rm -f /tmp/mail_abusers/* > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Joe Nelson
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Sure, I'm happy to contribute.  I've attached a copy of the script
>     for all to use as you wish.  Be aware that this was a quick and
>     dirty little script that was written to solve a particular problem.
>     It may need tweaking to work on your system and it may need
>     additional error checking, etc but it has been running on our system
>     for over a year without a hiccup.  In that time, it's saved my
>     fellow admins and I lots of heartache!
>
>     As for using the submission port, well, I must admit that I haven't
>     put enough thought into it to determine if it will be good for us or
>     not.  My guess it that it's probably something I should implement,
>     but I'm not sure.  Maybe some research is in order.  Any pointers on
>     good places to start?
>
>
>
>     On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Eric Shubert
>     <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>         Nice solution. Care to share the script?
>
>         I presume you either don't use the submission port (587), or you
>         have
>         spamdyke running on it. If the later, why?
>
>         Thanks.
>
>         --
>         -Eric 'shubes'
>
>
>         On 05/21/2012 10:59 AM, Joe Nelson wrote:
>          > We have a python script that checks the Spamdyke logs every 5
>         minutes
>          > for users who have sent more emails than a predefined
>         threshold.  If
>          > they have, it automatically changes their password to a randomly
>          > generated one, immediately locking out the spammers who have
>         access to
>          > their account.  It then emails technical support so that they can
>          > contact the customer to get the problem resolved permanently.
>           It's been
>          > great for us to have this place and most customers understand
>         that we're
>          > actually protecting them, even if they are the ones who's
>         accounts were
>          > compromised.
>          >
>          >
>          > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Hartmut Wernisch |
>         Domaintechnik.at
>          > <[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>          > <mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>          >
>          >     On 16 May 12, Ratko Rudic wrote:
>          > > Hi spamdykers!
>          > >
>          > > Is there a feature that would allow user to send only X
>         emails in Y
>          > > minutes. An example would be max 10 emails in 5 minutes?
>          >
>          > http://qmail-spp.sourceforge.net/
>          >
>          > >
>          > > And a subquestion: what do you do if user's password got
>         leaked to
>          > > spammers and then those spammers authenticate as this user.
>         (and send
>          > > enormous amount of spam in just couple of hours).
>          > > Is there a way to prevent this?
>          >
>          >     Monitoring :)
>          >     We use Nagios to monitor our services. Most spamming can
>         be trapped by
>          >     watching the queue size. Maybe you want to monitor the
>         message status
>          >     too.
>          >
>          >     Best,
>          >     Hartmut
>          >
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