On Sat, 22 May 2010, John GALLET wrote:
This stopped dead "spam outbursts": your 8000 mails per day are NOT received in a linear way, but everytime a spammer sends you a "batch" and you just can not keep up: who would drink from a fire hose ?
Question: are you utilizing any SMTP-time DNSBLs? Many admins trust the Spamhaus Zen DNSBL enough to reject at SMTP time based on it. That would also tend to reduce your load (though, granted, not as much as firewall rules!)
-- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Users mistake widespread adoption of Microsoft Office for the development of a document format standard.
