Re: (PM) Filtering Mail Pings

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 07:09:50 -0700

We're still looking for such an option in ComOS - it would be a lifesaver.

And I'd rather not have something monitor byte/time ratios.

On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 05:56:30AM -0600, Greg McKenzie wrote:

> Has anyone figured out how to filter out the pings from mail clients. We
> have at terrible situation here where our dialups are basically putting
> themselves on life support (connection to Internet) once they dialup.
> Seriously we have login that last 23 hrs until we disconnect them. They are
> using their mail client to check their mail every x minutes. We have played
> with the idletimer over and over, but no luck. So we would like to see if
> we can filter the call to the mail server port, and NOT have it reset the
> idle timer.

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 - Steve
  - Systems Manager
  - Community Internet Access, Inc.
  - Gallup and Grants, New Mexico
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