Fwd: RE: Dealing with MailScanner overloads

David Hooton david at PLATFORMHOSTING.COM
Sun Sep 14 15:22:01 IST 2003


Ulysees wrote:
> I think this code could be usefull, however you would need to be able to
> give it few hints, eg
> 1000 mails in an hour from othersite.mycorp.com is fine
> 100 mails in an hour from spam.spam.spam.spamity.spam.com is not normal
> behavior & should be blocked.
> really just a black/whitelist which sets a limit on mails per hour from a
> host

I think adding that plus the ability to set thresholds for types of
message (Virii, Spam, High Scoring Spam clean) would make it a very
valid tool.
--
Regards,

David Hooton
Senior Partner
Platform Hosting
1300 85 HOST
www.platformhosting.com


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