Terry Shows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a history. Spammers have been hitting me so hard that > concurrent > incoming connections were overloading my server. Then > rejections were > overloading me on the outbound side. Some servers were doing > the guessing > game, sending me 100 or more emails to different "guessed" > addresses on my > domain. The rejections of these were blowing me away.
Have you tried implementing controls at the SMTP level to phase out connections from these spammers? There are a number of methods that you can use to detect spammers, log their attempts, and block any further connections from them. This can be done through rate limiting, DNS spam lists, ACL deny host/network lists, local-part verification (to at least reduce some bounce messages), as well as some work on your part to monitor the exim logs and start blocking connections at the firewall from these people. Hopefully some of these solutions can help in your situation... Oh, and don't forget to report these networks to the rest of the spam-fearing world to help other people in your situation, b/c once you shut them out, they're going to take their crap elsewhere. Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
