Paul Lesniewski wrote: >> So far I've added a captcha, but this doesn't seem to help as much as >> you'd think. >> > > Make sure the backend you've chosen is a good one. Some of them are > relatively simple to hack. Note also you can use it in combination > with the User Information plugin to restrict the country of origin. > > The captcha is recaptcha. Added User Information plugin. I'll have to look into this one further. > You're trying to detect the problem by looking at emails that have > already been sent out - you should fight the problem earlier. Install > the Squirrel Logger and/or Restrict Senders plugins which can watch > and optionally lock down accounts that start sending out large volumes > of messages, especially with lots of recipients. You can also employ > outgoing spam filters in your MTA and/or rate-limit your senders in > the MTA. > True I am trying to track down the spammers after the fact, but there is also no, or limited, reasons for a user to be sending emails with an address other that their login especially using webmail. This is, of course, partially a policy decision. Already had Squirrel Logger install which helps greatly in spotting the spammers. Didn't know about Restrict Senders. Have installed this and configured it with what I think is reasonable settings. We'll have to wait and see what effect this has. > Then, turning off ability to edit email address in the configuration > should be sufficient (or even not that necessary). > > Which setting in which file do you mean? The one to which I already referred to or another one i've missed. (Too many email addresses :-) ). Would still like to remove some option pages as well. eg, >> to remove the settings for "Reply To" and "Email Address". However, I'm >> not having much luck removing the >> >> Multiple Identities: Edit Advanced Identities (discards changes made >> on this form so far) >> >> Almost there. Jeff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
