Fwd: RE: Dealing with MailScanner overloads

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Sun Sep 14 10:31:33 IST 2003


Hi!

> This code would then result in me blocking my own fallback MX server, and I
> think this is not an uncommon situation?
>
> So, this idea may be useful to some people in some situations, certainly,
> however for Sobig.F I think it would only have helped the people running a
> primary MX without a backup relay, or else running MailScanner on their
> backup relay as well.

At least you could lock down your local users this way, if you could give
IP ranges in the script this should work for you could put down local
infections a LOT.

Bye,
Raymond.



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