Re: throttle pop3 access

[Roger Abrahamsson <roger@obbit.se>]

Hello.


Tinus Nijmeijers wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> I'm having the problem that users are checking their mail (pop3) every
> other minute or so. no problem with the 200 accounts that we have right
> now, but I wouldn't mind being able to throttle their checking. max once
> per 10 min's for instance. 
> Ideal would be to let the pop3 server tell them (if they checked again
> within 10 minutes of the last time): "no messages".
>
> any ideas where to look?
>  
Well, scripts looking into logfiles, and each account that checks too 
often gets
suddenly blocked.. change password or whatever, and then restore it 5/10 
minutes
later.. that should do the trick.

/Roger

> Tinus.
>  
--
Roger Abrahamsson
Sys/Net Admin, Obbit AB




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