[cobalt-users] Limiting POP3/IMAP access

["Jonathan Michaelson" <michaelsonjd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I've been working on a GPL solution to help with users abusing POP3/IMAP
access. I developed it for our RaQ4 envrionment because I was getting fed-up
monitoring the maillog for users accessing excessively. It should work on
any Unix platform (it's also running on a RH7.3 server). It's only recently
been released, but I've been using it for some months now on our products
servers. Here's the blurb and links:

"poplimitd is a daemon process that will monitor your server maillog file
for POP3 or IMAP connections. Using configurable settings it monitors the
rate of logins based on user account and IP address. If it finds excessive
usage, it will send a preconfigured email with the users information to that
user asking them to stop it. In the future it will also have the option to
block the IP address. On servers that suffer from high POP3/IMAP load, this
can dramatically modify user behaviour and limit POP and IMAP connections
and load."

Main page:
http://poplimitd.sourceforge.net

Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/poplimitd/

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Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson
Commercial CGI Scripting, Web Hosting
Web-based Email, Homepage Creation and Live Help products
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