RE: [cobalt-users] [RAQ3] - how to stop excessive e-mail checking?

[aljuhani <aljuhani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok you can configure the inetd.conf to define max qpoper connections per 
minute.  Default inetd.conf value allows 40 connections per minute.  In the 
inetd.conf file, find the pop3 line, and change nowait to nowait.timeout, for 
example, nowait.50 to permit 50 Qpopper connections within one minute.

for more on this, read the link below:
http://www.eudora.com/qpopper/faq.html#maillock.err

Al-Juhani
aljuhani@xxxxxxxxx

>===== Original Message From cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx =====
I have one client domain, where a number of key staff hot-desk it between 
offices - one user in particular visits each of 3 offices daily, and he leaves 
his PC in each office collecting e-mail EVERY MINUTE of EVERY DAY - this means 
his ONE login checks e-mail 3 times per minute.

I've tried user education, and I've tried reason - they refuse to consider 
that their $300 a year hosting account doesn't come with this kind of e-mail 
facility hammering as standard... so I figured that when they came up for 
renewal, I'd simply not invoice them.... except... our ever so money hungry 
accounts type spotted my "omission" , and invoiced them - they paid - I'm 
stuck with this garbage for another year.

Is there any way to limit the collection of e-mail on a virtual host or domain 
- or even IP address and possibly a few login IDs?  It's not THAT much of a 
hammering, but this one domain is responsible for more than the sum of all the 
other e-mail checking on the server - and to be fair, they receive MUCH less 
e-mail than some of the other accounts.  They are simply anal about this 
checking.

tia

Greg Hewitt-Long

ps - I'd take a straw poll - would anyone simply TERMINATE their accounts?
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