Exim security/iptables query

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Wed Jan 26 14:25:28 GMT 2005


Michele

my idea would be to ask on he exim-users email list :-)


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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:
> Hi all
>
> We are using vispan on some of our sendmail servers, however its support for
> exim is pretty much non-existent, so I'm looking for a similar type of
> solution for exim
> Basically we want to be able to drop Ips into iptables if they send more
> than X viruses or spam in a given period.
> Over the last few days we have seen a very high number of infected machines
> hammering servers with junk, so dropping the connections from these machines
> would save us a lot of headaches
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Michele
>
> Mr Michele Neylon
> Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
> Hosting, co-location & domains
> http://www.blacknight.ie/
> Tel. +353 59 9137101
> http://www.blacknight.ie/specialoffers.html
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