On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Matt Hess wrote:
source hosts.. Now being as we are a secondary mx I'm dropping their record out of our email system as I write this, however, I am curious if other have gone through or are currently going through something of this magnitude (12K spam/dictionary msgs per hour destined to one domain and that's just what is
You want to keep a list of valid accounts on the secondary so you can refuse mail for non-existing accounts on the secondary too. If you don't care about yourself -- relize that if, say, all of these mails have a return address forged from the same domain, you will be DOSing THAT site with the bounce messages. This is enough for some people to block mail from you. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- chris@westnet.com -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/