Mark Adams wrote:
One of the many spammers around has sent out a LOAD of email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Currently our server is being over-run by the bounce backs, spamassassin is choking due to the extensive checking it is doing and exim will not accept any more connections.
OK, keep in mind that I have no familiarity with Exim beyond its name, so I don't know what it can and can't do. So, with that disclaimer...
Is that a valid address? If not, see if you can get Exim do "user unknown" checks before calling SpamAsssassin. That'll save a whole lot of load, since SA will never see the bogus messages.
If it's a real address, it might be possible to temporarily reject only bounce notices sent to the address. Again, I'm not familiar with Exim, but we've done something similar using Sendmail and MIMEDefang's filter_recipient functionality, rejecting a message if it's to a certain recipient and from <>.
-- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
