Re: (PM) Filtering Mail Pings

John Lange (microjl@palacenet.net)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:35:17 -0600

HI

One of the things we do is to set "Session-Timout=28800" or 8 hours. This
at least knocks them off after 8 hours. You can experiment with shorter
lengths of time, but you will see complaints.

JOhn :}

At 05:56 AM 1/20/98 -0600, you 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.
>
>Any ideas, if you already don this can you share the feat ! We are running
>PM3s with 3.72 on WinNT boxes.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>Greg
>greg@access.aic-fl.com
>
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