Quota per X?

[amarc]

Hello,

documentation says:

QUOTA The default quota for a user. Defaults to 1000

What does this mean ? 1000 emails per each user(username) on server ? 1000 per what ? Hour,day,year..?

How can I configure it so each user, for example, is allowed to send 5 emails per minute and 50 per hour ?

Thank you

[onlime]

Hi @amarc

QUOTA The default quota for a user. Defaults to 1000

What does this mean ? 1000 emails per each user(username) on server ? 1000 per what ? Hour,day,year..?

Stupid answer: It depends. On your timer, on your choice. See that note in the features list:

• Set your own time period (usually 24hrs) by resetting the counters via Systemd cleanup timer (or cronjob)

A sample Systemd timer for deployment can be found here: deployment/systemd/policyd-rate-guard-cleanup.timer. This example uses a 24hr period of current day, always resets counters at 10s past midnight:

[Timer]
OnCalendar=00:00:10

It executes the cleanup job, cleanup.py see deployment/systemd/policyd-rate-guard-cleanup.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
WorkingDirectory=/opt/policyd-rate-guard
ExecStart=/opt/policyd-rate-guard/venv/bin/python /opt/policyd-rate-guard/cleanup.py
User=postfix

Please also see how deployment is done, human readable even if you have never used Ansible before:

onlime/ansible-role-policyd-rate-guard tasks/main.yml#L101-L118

How can I configure it so each user, for example, is allowed to send 5 emails per minute and 50 per hour ?

That's not yet possible. Per-user timespans are not yet configurable, as the whole cleanup is based on a cronjob/Systemd-timer that runs on a regular basis for all users. But you can configure individual quotas for each user simply by creating/updating the ratelimits database table rows quota, quota_reset.
Feel free to PR!

Cheers, Philip