Rick Macdougall a écrit :
> Brian Leyton wrote:
>
>> Rick Macdougall wrote:
>>
>>> My system would disagree with you for the last 3 days :)
>>>
>>> We've been under a constant bounce bombardment of bounced spams
(from f*cking idiot admins who can't understand that you do not bounce
after accepting, sorry for the language) where the majority of user
names are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where roger is any valid name).
>>>
>>> We had one advance MX server that usually ran 32 connections out of
120 and now we've had to bring on 3 additional servers all running 300
connections and we've had to turn off SA processing because the incoming
load is just too high.
>>>
>>> I'd really like to take a bat to the knees of the spammer doing
this AND the mail admins who bounce after accepting.
>>>
>>> Just my $0.02
>>
>>
>>
>> Don't get too mad, but I'm one of those "f*cking idiot" admins who is
>> bouncing after acceptance. The reason isn't (just) because I'm a
"f*cking
>> idiot" admin, but because I use "f*cking idiot" software that Management
>> hasn't seen fit to upgrade yet, probably because I'm doing such a
good job
>> keeping it running :-)
>>
>> What it comes down to is that I have a Linux machine at the front-end,
>> running MimeDefang, Spamassassin, etc., which passes everything it
hasn't
>> rejected on to an old Exchange Server. I can't turn off the bounce
messages
>> at the Exchange Server (for various stupid reasons that only Bill Gates
>> could explain), but I have no way of rejecting mail at the Linux
machine,
>> because I don't know which addresses are valid.
>>
>> I'm still working on a way to do this - I'm sure it's not
impossible, but I
>> haven't had much success yet. Ideally, the Linux machine would do
an LDAP
>> query to the Exchange server, but unless you can help me figure out
how to
>> do it, then I guess I'll just remain a "f*cking idiot admin".
>>
>> Brian Leyton
>> IT Manager
>> Commercial Petroleum Equipment
>
>
> I'm sure you can do the same thing in Postfix, sendmail or what ever
mail MTA you are using.
it's kinda easy with postfix :
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~malth/gaptuning/postfix/
I strongly advise to run it manually instead of via cron, since if the
exchange server sh*t itself, the exchange_recipients list will contains
nothing and all mails will be bounced :/
(sorry for the double post, Rick)
--
François Conil
Administrateur Systèmes et Réseaux
<Pax> I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself.
