On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:33:15AM -0400, Joey wrote: > Hello All, > > > > I just wanted to share my success with you guys. I have been on the list > for many years running 3 postfix servers. We don't have a lot of clients, > but enough to warrant millions of connections a month by spammers. > > I have been using the RBL's along with other methods but we still get way > too much spam. > > > > I have always used some firewall rules to block connections for port 25 from > a variety of repeat offenders that connect to my servers and maybe we > blocked a million or two a month . > > > This still allowed about 14K connections per hour to hit our servers and > resulted in blocking over 3 million of them via spamhaus RBL in one month.
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