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 on the spam. 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 Things get ugly. At this point, the system is out of processes and things start dying. 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? Dan. _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
