On 18 Feb 2002 at 17:01, Daniel Rogers wrote:
> Recently, we've been the unfortunate recepients of several spams that are
> sent so quickly as to cause spamassassin to overwhelm our mail server.
>
> Here's what happens:
>
> Spammer connects to smtp port, gives his helo and mail from, then gives
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Daniel Rogers wrote:
> sendmail forks 10-15 procmails, which fork 10-15 spamcs, which fork 10-15
> spamds
>
> Spammer sends over 30 of these in under two minutes
I let postfix queue those up - I have postfix set to not have more than a
small number of delivery agents running
* Daniel Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-02-18T17:10-0800]:
> I was thinking that sendmail with milter might help with this problem, but
> installing sendmail 8.12.2 started to hurt my head. Would milter help?
> Would any other mailers handle this better?
Milter would probably help, or you can
Recently, we've been the unfortunate recepients of several spams that are
sent so quickly as to cause spamassassin to overwhelm our mail server.
Here's what happens:
Spammer connects to smtp port, gives his helo and mail from, then gives
10-15 "rcpt to:"s, essentially bcc'ing a bunch of people o
