>>> 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 :-) ). $edit_identity $edit_name config/conf.pl ==> 4. General Options ==> 9. Allow... > 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 The forced prefs settings you have should work on the main identities option page. If you set $edit_identity to false, the multiple identities link will be gone. >>> Multiple Identities: Edit Advanced Identities (discards changes made >>> on this form so far) >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
