Queue control?

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:

> When things were at their worst I was deleting the messages at the server 
> through Webmin, although that put a fair load on the server. I took care of 
> about 33,000 messages that way, and have picked up over 28,000 in my normal 
> error-handling e-mail client. There are roughly 15,000 still on the server, 
> and though it's slowed down dramatically since this afternoon, there are 
> still more of the errors coming in. So with 75,000 so far, I'd expect it to 
> hit 85,000 if the jerk doesn't run this again tomorrow.
>
> Either his list was really, really bad, or it was really, really huge.

All lists are very, very bad. On my domain there are at least a 1000 
unique addresses in use by spammers. In real life there is only a handfull 
of valid users here.

I recommend you see if there is a unique signature in the headers and see 
if you can instruct sendmail to drop those. In postfix I got headers 
checks like:

/^Subject: =\?big5\?/                   REJECT  Chinese encoding not allowed here.
/^Subject: =\?GB2312\?/                 REJECT  Chinese encoding not allowed here.
/^X-Mailer: Foxmail 4.1 [cn]/           REJECT  Chinese encoding not allowed here.
/^X-Mailer: Foxmail 4.2 [cn]/           REJECT  Chinese encoding not allowed here.
/^Subject: =\?EUC-KR\?/                 REJECT  Korean encoding not allowed here.
/^Subject: =\?KOI8-R\?/                 REJECT  Russian encoding not allowed here.
/^Subject: ADV:/                        REJECT  Advertisements not accepted here.
/^Subject: Out of Office AutoReply:/    REJECT  Autoreplies are considered harmfull!
/^X-MDSend-Notifications-To: \[trash\]/ REJECT  Autoreplies are considered harmfull!
/^Subject: .* is out of the office$/    REJECT  Autoreplies are considered harmfull!
/^Subject: Abwesenheitsnotiz: /         REJECT  Autoreplies are considered harmfull!
/^Auto-Submitted: auto-replied/         REJECT  Autoreplies are considered harmfull!

I got rid of a significant number of those blasted out-of-office messages 
this way.

Hugo.

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