startin, startout, stopms

[Randal, Phil]

Steve,

Are you using RBLs at the MTA level to reduce the load?

Phil

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Phil Randal
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Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Steve
Campbell
Sent: 21 August 2008 14:03
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: startin, startout, stopms



Gary Alexander wrote:
> 2008/8/20 Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com>
>   
>> I'm getting hammered today and my input queue just keeps growing and 
>> growing. I'd like to stop the input queue from receiving more mail 
>> but still process what's there using MS. What option do I give my
/etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner command to accomplish this?
>>     
>
> Again if you are using sendmail you can use the rate limiting 
> functions for a pemanent solution. See here for details 
> http://www.technoids.org/dossed.html
>
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Gary,

Thanks very much for the link. I see it starting all over again today,
so it looks as though I will need to use some of the suggestions from
the link.

BTW -

I am using sendmail. The attack is from differing IPs for almost each
message, so blocking the IP in the access file is useless as an
immediate deterent. MS/SA is doing it's job properly and very well at
not letting almost all of this through.

Thanks

Steve

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