Per-User email limit

[alphadeity]

On my shared hosting server, I limit user emails to 200/day. I did this by editing /etc/virtual/limit to 200, but my question is how do I change this default limit for a particular user that I trust?

Any help or a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,


Edit: oops, I intended to post this in email forum.

 

[alphadeity]

I found a few threads about this... it doesn't look like DA supports this, but would be a good feature to implement into the software as a per user and per domain basis.

Move to feature request forum?

(Unless I'm mistaken of this features existence)

 

[nobaloney]

I've moved the thread; it's nowl a Feature Request with the subject Per-User email limit.

Jeff

 

[floyd]

You can

chattr +i /etc/virtual/usage/username

to prevent the file from being incremented and thereby allowing unlimited emails.

 

[alphadeity]

Thanks for the helpful hint to release the limit for specific users. Would still be a nice feature to add to the admin panel and become an official part of the product.

 

[bluebirdnet]

Thanks for the helpful hint to release the limit for specific users. Would still be a nice feature to add to the admin panel and become an official part of the product.

Agreed, does anyone know of the status on this ? Will this be implemented?

Floyd good workaround thanks! but i still would like to be able to set a limit per user.

 

[zEitEr]

It's not so difficult to tune check_limits in /etc/exim.pl to add a per-user check (with daily and hourly limits).

It's NOT the best way, because your users will get a confusing bounce email with "no route" error within. If you want Exim to give a proper error message, like "Hourly/Daily Limits exceeded", you'd do more work with exim.conf.