Ok thank you for the info, this did scare me :). Its taxing my small system.

Regards
Jithesh

On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 06:48:01 -0700, Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> wrote:

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 06:43:47AM -0700, Jithesh AP wrote:

I have an attack on my mail system and the mail i got from mailer deamon is
(got 1000s of such mails)

You've set "notify_classes" to send you too much email.

----------------------------------
Transcript of session follows.

 Out: 220 ml.w8timez.com ESMTP Postfix
 In:  HELO 54.183.212.207
 Out: 250 ml.w8timez.com
 In:  MAIL FROM: <fmrjk...@yahoo.com.tw>
 Out: 250 2.1.0 Ok
 In:  RCPT TO: <yuej...@yahoo.com.tw>
 Out: 451 4.3.0 <yuej...@yahoo.com.tw>: Temporary lookup failure
 Out: 421 4.7.0 ml.w8timez.com Error: too many errors

Session aborted, reason: too many errors

Not much of an attack, just an open-relay test.  Just ignore it,
and ideally arrange to not be notified about it.

Any specific suggestions to close such attack?

    # No postmaster notices, just read the logs.
    #
    notify_classes =



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