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Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers


From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor () inoc net>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:34:43 -0500


Chris Adams wrote:
What does that have to do with SMTP rate limiting?


A lot since the original question was:

> Do you let your customers send an unlimited number of
> emails per day? Per hour? Per minute? If so, then why?


and an answer was:

> Because there are *NO* packages available that offer limiting.
> Free or commercial.


So I corrected it, software is available that allows you limit/tarpit SMTP connections as well as limit a number of messages a user can send in a given time period.

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