Re: Flexible rules

scott hollatz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.perdition.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Hi,
> 
> Often I'm asked to restrict access to some e-mail accounts based on the 
> client IP address (for example, some employees should not access e-mail 
> except from office to avoid overtime and other labor related lawsuits).

This depends on the size of your user base, but launching perdition
via xinetd and using its access controls (IP, time period, etc) may work.
 
> I'm thinking about implementing a flag to pass the client IP address 
> along with the username field to the database backend, so I can write a 
> custom backend to implement client IP based rules.
> 
> Any comments/advice?
> 
> TIA,
> --
> Paulo
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