I've drawn up specs for a throttle for qmail-remote. Haven't had time to write the patch for it yet, but hope to do so in the next few months.
-- -Eric 'shubes' On 12/10/2013 10:21 AM, ron wrote: > Such a solution would be nice. > I can empathize with you as it happened to me about 8 months ago and it > took me several hours to figure how to stop it, although they weren't > being created as fast as yours. Scanned all PC's with Malware Bytes and > didn't find any process that could be definitely identified as the > culprit, but removed anything suspect. > > Ron > > > On 12/10/2013 9:35 AM, Les Fenison wrote: >> I had one of my email users accounts compromised this morning and have >> been thinking of what could have prevented hundreds of thousands of >> spams from going out all within a 2 minute window. >> >> Is there any way possible to limit the number of emails that a single >> authenticated user can send within a specified period of time? >> >> Fortunately I was awake and an alarm alerted me to an enormous mail >> queue and I was able to quickly change the compromised password. But >> not until over 400,000 messages got queued. I dumped the queue >> immediately but time will tell how many blacklists my IP ends up on >> because of this. >> >> -- >> Les Fenison >> www.DeltaTechnicalServices.com <https://www.deltatechnicalservices.com> >> [email protected] >> (503) 610-8747 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> spamdyke-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
