POP3 conection throttle

[Chuck Swiger]

On Dec 12, 2006, at 9:20 AM, scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
> Does anybody know any wrapper to popper server to throttle the per  
> user connection rate?
> I would like to avoid some users to connect the pop3 server, every  
> 30 secs, i.e.
> Something that returns "no new messages", between a configurable time.

User education is the best solution.  You're not going to improve  
matters much by adding a POP3 proxy which refuses rapid connections  
compared with simply having them hit the normal POP3 daemon.

On the other hand, you will see an improvement if you switch from  
using POP3 to using IMAP, as the latter protocol is more efficient  
about mailbox updates.  (At least, if the client is sanely written.)

-- 
-Chuck