Re: Rate limiting?

"Paul Lesniewski" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Recently, we have been victim of a phishing attack (read
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/A1XJVH38GHOSHB for details).
>
> I noticed that the squirrel_logger plugin does actually log:
>
> 11/19/2008 22:11:43 [MASS_MAILING] idiotuser (charite.de) from 65.49.2.93 (65.49.2.93): Total 340 recipients
>
> but
>
> a) It doesn't notify postmaster, although I configured it to do so

That's troubling.  I'll try to look later, but any additional help you
can provide by running some internal tests (and watching for errors,
etc.) would be appreciated.  Also, please show all software versions.

> $sl_send_alerts = array(
>      'MASS_MAILING'  =>  "Possible outgoing spam: by %2 (%3) at %4 on %6: %7",
> );
> $sl_alert_to  = array(
>      'MASS_MAILING' => '[email protected]',
> );
>
> b) Logging is fine, but it would be cool to actually BLOCK the user
>   from sending mail for e.g. 15 Minutes.
>
> Thoughts? Are there other ways to prevent mass-mailing?

The Restrict Senders plugin will actually disable sends from any
account that has sent "mass mailings" to a given number of recipients
in a certain timeframe.  You can certainly use that or rate limit in
the MTA as otherwise suggested.

Any other feedback you have on why the logger plugin didn't notify you
would be helpful.

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