This feature is available with Artica version 1.4.102013
If you are under this release you need to upgrade your Artica version.
If this version is not released use the How to upgrade Artica to a nightly build ?
It allow you to define quotas for your internal users when sending mails.
You can define several rules for each user in order to reject/notify by Total of messages number and/or by total of messages size sended.
Enable Artica-Policy
If you enable this feature, it automatically added for all postfix instances if multiple Postfix instances is enabled
- On the left menu, select Messaging/Main Parameters
- Choose Filters (Anti-Spam,ant...) tab
- Click on Modules activation
Turn to green "Enable Artica-Policy Filter"
Activate Quota for an user
- Select the user main panel and click on "Messaging" Tab
- Click on "Sender Settings" tab
On the Sender settings panel, choose Quotas Policies.
- Define the Maximal messages that this user should send (if 0 then the quota is unlimited).
- Define the Maximal size of all messages that this user should send (if 0 then the quota is unlimited).
- If you enable "Only Notify do not reject" artica-policy will not reject mails but send to you an SMTP notification with all messages transaction
About artica-policy
Artica policy can be restarted by using the Artica panel or
/etc/init.d/artica-postfix restart artica-policy
When updating a policy, Artica reload the daemon automatically, you can use this command to manually reload the artica-policy daemon
/usr/share/bin/artica-install --reload-artica-policy
artica-policy write logs in /var/log/artica-filter/daemon.log
if you need to increase verbosity do
echo 1 >/etc/artica-postfix/settings/Daemons/DebugArticaFilter
to disable debug mode :
echo 0 >/etc/artica-postfix/settings/Daemons/DebugArticaFilter
