Dealing with persistant mailers

[Gerry Doris]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > Some of these sites are a real nuisance!
> >
> > What is the best [i.e. most economical on resources] way
> > to block these sites, and or any other statagies to
> > combat these are appreciated
>
> A DENY in the access file for addresses that are non existent anymore
> worked for me. I am handling mail for some domains, previously used by a
> big ISP, i get around 40k-60k spam mails (after 1.5 year still) DAILY with
> crap/spam/virusses ...
>
> Bye,
> Raymond.

Couldn't you just block the ip address in iptables?  That would discard
the packets before they even hit sendmail.

--
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer