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Quel
12-13-2004, 07:49 PM
Hi,

I give a trial free month and I'm feedup with manual checking for the accounts to avoid spammers.

Anyone knows of some kind of product/addon to Cpanel that can restict mail and email funtions from PHP and allow to send, let's say, 5 emails a day but not 5000? Such as I could enable immediate activation and forget about this?

AQ

Anky
12-13-2004, 08:32 PM
Don't give e-mail access in the trial month?

Flipe.NET
12-13-2004, 08:38 PM
You can edit php.ini or some php configs?
Or server configs?

sh-dba
12-13-2004, 08:58 PM
There is an option on WHM to allow an specific amount per hour.

Quel
12-14-2004, 02:44 AM
Hi sh-dba

I did not know this. Could you guide me on how to activate it?

Tx

AQ

apollo
12-16-2004, 01:09 PM
I would suggest you get another server, set-up the server to disable outgoing email/connections to port 25 at all and there you go :)

don't forget that if you limit amount of emails per hour from WHM, a spammer can always write script that connects to mail server (MX) and send messages directly. See my point?

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Quel
12-16-2004, 06:29 PM
Tx apollo. Quite a good way to do it, but I pretend to offer this as 'demo' to customers and i cannot forbid completely sending emails. I would like to restrict the number sent to 10 per day.

But you're right that anything implemented can be broken. That's life. Just I hope to avoid the ones that are not proof enough to break it

AQ