>>> We have a squirrel mail setup in our college. Due to lot of spam >>> mails >>> we installed a plugin called restrict senders to restrict the number of >>> mails sent. > >>As Benny noted, if users can log in with clients other than >>SquirrelMail, this plugin will not help when attackers gain access >>through other clients. > > In config.php file we have set '$restrictNumberOfEmailsPerDay=40' but we > tried to test this using squirrel mail and not with any other clients. > there seems to be no error or restriction when I tried sending more than > 40 mails per day. > We need to limit the senders only in squirrel mail and thats why we have > installed this plugin. Works for me. I tested just now using 3 because I don't want to send emails all day. When you send each email, watch the user preference setting called "todays_email_count" and make sure it increases. FYI, your SM version is badly out of date and contains known security holes. -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- 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
