Nice idea. We were considering this for a long time because our mail server
has built in support for email throttling. Luckily for me, configuring it
will be done by my colleague as it is his part of the job. Tomorrow morning
I will happily inform him that throttling is needed and suggested by someone
who knows antispam :)

Giga


Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
>> We have some strong spam attacks done by combination of our webmail,
>> viruses
>> and open proxies.
>>
>> Situation is like this:
>> Our outgoing SMTP server is open only for users from our IP addresses and
>> is
>> filtered for rest of the world. Our webmail interface is open to whole
>> world
>> as our users need to access it from anywhere (of course they have to log
>> in
>> first).
> 
> Count! MAke some scripts on your outbound SMTP and do per user (e-mail) 
> thresholds. So if you have a exploited account the damage is minimal.
> 
> Bye,
> Raymond.
> 
> 

-- 
View this message in context: 
http://www.nabble.com/Webmail-spammers-tp22273077p22279634.html
Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Reply via email to