Help! ....We are taking 120k msgs per day and climbing

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> We're having excessively high loads (see below, let me know if anyone wants
> to see something else)  even though we have implemented MailScanner now
> using the XBL+SBL, and using whitelist/blacklists our volume continues to
> grow.  We need to take action to stop the flood of mail, we're getting hit
> by every trick in the book it seems but we can only do so much.  The
> MailScanner gateway has offloaded and provided protection to our internal MS
> Exchange system but at this rate it won't last long either.

Start using DSBL on your MTA to reject mail. This will help a lot.
See http://www.dsbl.org

> Some questions we have is, should we reject or discard mail at the Sendmail
> level or take other actions to bounce mail?

Yes. Definately.

Bye,
Raymond.

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