Backing off Blog-by-email
August 6, 2009 9 Comments
On order to protect email servers from a possible denial of service attack from the blog by email feature of WordPress I have committed a change today to ensure that WordPress will not contact the mail server more that once every 5 minutes however often wp-mail.php is accessed.
Message displayed when rejecting request
The 5 minute interval, is itself, configurable using a define in your wp-config.php file it you wish to set a longer or shorter interval.
You would configure this by adding the following to the wp-config.php:
//Set the minimum interval for wp-mail blog-by-email POP3 connections to 10 minutes
define('WP_MAIL_INTERVAL',600);
This feature will be available in WordPress v2.9
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Ooo, handy feature.
That would have been a great addition to the WordPress 2.8.3 update, but will be a excellent addition to WP 2.9
Great work spotting that possibility!
Yeah, very nice features – thanks!
Nice
I think in general this should be moved out into a plugin we maintain.
I take it you mean blog-by-email in general.
If so I agree whole heartedly.
It needs some love and would be much better as a canonical plugin to get more people involved in owning it.
I believe there are already a number of plugins which provide a better solution as it is.
Would you be up for getting in touch with a few of the top plugin authors and see if they’d be up for working together with us to create a canonical plugin?
Indeed I would – I have a look around for what is out there and see what people think is best.
We did have a talk at WordCamp UK last year from someone who was using one plugin very successfully for mob-blogging.
I’ve said before, I hope that WordPress.org gets the blog-by-email love that WordPress.com has. Blog-by-email is much better for .com, so I would encourage you (both) to include some of those features whichever direction you take (and I like the canonical plugin suggestion).