Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-21 Thread Adam Katz
Marc Perkel wrote: > What I've noticed is that domains with catchall accounts are > usually the ones that get abbused this way. MTAs the reject bad > email addresses at SMTP time are not what spammers like when it > comes to choices of domains to spam or spoof. To clarify, from the senders' perspe

Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-20 Thread LuKreme
On 19-May-2009, at 22:23, option8 wrote: is there any particular reason this might be happening to just this one domain? Many possible reasons. The most obvious is they used to accept all emails (catchall) or they had a lot of users with a lot of virus/ malware on their windows machines.

Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-20 Thread option8
he same time. so far, not a lot of hits on it, but its caught a few that b.barracudacentral.org missed. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/one-domain-gets-99--of-spam-tp23628756p23636040.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-20 Thread Marc Perkel
option8 wrote: it is common for one domains to get an order of magnitude more spam than another that seems just like it. like mark said, it probably won't stop. low overhead techniques like greylisting or no listing can reduce the stress on your server quite a bit. configuring your mta

Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-20 Thread option8
S for that domain. i haven't seen any drastic drop, but at least someone's harvesting the IPs other than me. --option8. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/one-domain-gets-99--of-spam-tp23628756p23635714.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Aaron Wolfe wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: option8 wrote: on my small server setup, i host around 30 domains. between SA and a fairly aggressive exim setup, very little spam gets through to the end users. most of it doesn't even get far enough to hit my lo

Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-19 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: > > > option8 wrote: >> >> on my small server setup, i host around 30 domains. between SA and a >> fairly >> aggressive exim setup, very little spam gets through to the end users. >> most >> of it doesn't even get far enough to hit my logs. >> >>

Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-19 Thread Marc Perkel
option8 wrote: on my small server setup, i host around 30 domains. between SA and a fairly aggressive exim setup, very little spam gets through to the end users. most of it doesn't even get far enough to hit my logs. however, one domain that i host gets constantly bombarded, and has since i to

one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-19 Thread option8
ever see a trickle. --option8. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/one-domain-gets-99--of-spam-tp23628756p23628756.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.