How do you stop the recent floods

Mariano Absatz mailscanner at LISTS.COM.AR
Wed Jun 16 15:39:59 IST 2004


I haven't tried it out, but http://virbl.bit.nl/ seems like a very good 
idea... in fact, if your MTA supports it, I'd configure this at the MTA 
level.


El 16 Jun 2004 a las 9:40, Chris Mason escribió:

> In the good old days, about six months ago, spam came from open relays,
> Blackhole lists stopped most of it, and the combination of MailScanner and
> Spamassassin stopped almost all of the rest of it. Then came these
> spam-relaying virus ridden windows machines, and the torrent began. I am
> seeing hundreds of emails in a couple of minutes from the same user, same
> subject, all getting through. MailScanner does not stop them, and the
> blackhole lists are useless against them.
> 
> Is there anything I can do?
> 
> Chris Mason
> 
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