We are running Declude and Sniffer on Imail 8.05. One of our nationally
accessed domains, xyz.com, has been under constant dictionary attacks
with 320,000 messages per day average for 265 e-mail addresses/aliases. 

After I installed our first Linux box as a gateway with Postfix the
number dropped to less than a 10th of the original traffic. I made sure
the now single dns mx record for the domain points at the Postfix box.
(mail04.mainISP.net) I left the original mail.xyz.com A record in place
to allow those domain customers to use the same POP/SMTP server
settings. I will be adding a second Postfix box to act as a gateway to
our backup mail server.

Within the last few days it appears the spammers figured it out and are
not using the mx record and going direct to the mail server. Anyone seen
this? I am trying to avoid changing the smtp/pop server settings for my
customers since the spammers may just look at our support pages and
bypass our Postfix machine again. Any suggestions???

Pissed but determined in Seattle,

Michael Jaworski
Puget Sound Network, Inc.
(206) 217-0400
(800) 599-9485


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