If my mail problems all day are indicative of anything, you'll be getting hammered by a million emails containing the sobig.h worm.
I just installed a new mailserver yesterday so i have been watching the mail logs including our outgoing mail, and have noticed loads of mail servers not accepting our connections because they have run out of resources. Our mail server has held up pretty well, but fscking razor and spamassassin don't consider this worm as spam, and i had to manually stick the body message into a spam filter, cos we've all just been overloaded wit this in our mailboxes. I've had a million to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] one here as well, and had to cook up a quick procmail filter for attachments. Check out these stories: http://wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,60109,00.html http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/20/technology/worms.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes -thor |--- Highpoint Lowlife records -----------------\ |---- DoF - 'If more than twenty people laugh, --\ |------------- It Wasn't Funny' --- * out now * --\ | http://www.highpointlowlife.com -----------------\ On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, John Hunter wrote: > I am getting lots of messages in /var/log/mail > like > Aug 20 11:48:42 mother sendmail[15511]: rejecting > connections on daemon MSA: load average: 12 > Aug 20 11:48:57 mother sendmail[15511]: rejecting > connections on daemon MTA: load average: 12 > > and am no longer receiving mail. My question is: is > this indicative of an external problem, ie, someone > trying to spam me with 18 billion email messages due > to some worm or virus gone awry, or is it indicative > of an internal problem, ie, someone has hacked me an > is trying to send too many messages from my computer > or is using me as a relay. > > Does sendmail handle incoming and outgoing mail? > > Confused in Chicago, > John Hunter > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Bits mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits > _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
