Jason White wrote:
Mike Fabre <mike+luv@fabre.id.au> wrote:
Hi, I have a postfix & dovecot server set up, and I have been given the task of making it put a arbitrary 5-10 minute delay for every email that comes through, whether it be for sent mail or received mail doesn't matter.
Are you sure you have to reinvent what is already available? You could install Postgrey, which (based on reports from friends who use it) can be very effective.
Some background: the users are malicious; and are leveraging high speed of modern email as a substitute for SMS (which they are not allowed). The obvious solution is to artificially delay all mail for (say) fifteen minutes. This is hoped to reduce the enormous quantity of one-line messages like "hi F, how r u" and "im ok, u".