Another attack to fight off

Daniel Straka dstraka at caspercollege.edu
Thu Feb 28 22:15:33 GMT 2008


Can we use MailScanner to delete the incoming messages with "from=<>" in them? Would that be practical?

Dan

>>> On 2/28/2008 at 3:03 PM, in message <47C72FCB.2070304 at pixelhammer.com>, DAve
<dave.list at pixelhammer.com> wrote:
> Vlad Mazek wrote:
>> It's escalating too :( which is why I'm trying to do the split queue 
>> thing but MailScanner has a big bold FIXME where it parses for incoming 
>> directories..
>> 
>> On 2/28/08, *Daniel Straka* <dstraka at caspercollege.edu 
>> <mailto:dstraka at caspercollege.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>>     I'm seeing Vlad's problem too, only 100% (2x) more than last week,
>>     it's unnerving...
> 
> Just out of curiosity I checked one server and grabbed these stats. 
> Nothing more scientific than a grep of the mail logs for " from=<> "
> 
> Todays total so far, followed by the last eight days.
> 19,485
> 18,818
> 28,619
> 5,461
> 1,658
> 994
> 1,140
> 1,097
> 810
> 1,546
> 
> yea, I would say it is a problem now.
> 
> DAve
> 



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