Rich:
I've been looking at Len's IMGate as well. What do you think the real time
to implement is? Did you find any gotcha's?
Mainly interested in how much time I'll need to block out. I haven't done a
FreeBSD install, my *nix skills are rusty, etc.
Thanks,
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Kansas Harvester
> This was a pretty common weekend problem here is Washington also. It
wasn't
> unusual to have a mail log file that was 10 times larger then normal for
the
> Sunday night - Monday morning period, seems that's the best time for these
> guys to pull this stunt.
>
> Yesterday I installed Imgate (imgate.meiway.com) and made it active on my
> system. Instead of a 15 to 16 megabyte mail file, I have a 900k mail
file.
> The spool isn't full of garbage returns and the mail server is much less
> loaded up.
>
> We also played the block IP game, but as soon as you block one, they start
> coming in on another.
>
> Imgate just requires a FreeBSD machine and Postfix so it's basically a
free
> setup. There's a mailing list to help the Linux/Unix impaired (me) and
it's
> working like a charm so far.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.kendra.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Nice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 6:02 AM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Kansas Harvester
>
>
> > Is anyone else running into the Kansas E-mail Harvester? He is using
> > every ISP in the Topeka area to harvest e-mail addresses using the
> > technique below. He managed to cause SMTPD32.EXE to trap out. Since
then
> > I have been blocking all the Kansas area dialups one by one as he uses
> > them. The big ISPs take up to several weeks to cancel all his accounts.
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > Mike Nice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > ------------------ Original Message --------------
> > >This is because there's alot of dictionary spamming going on right now.
> > >They send millions of emails to your server to every common username
> > >there is hoping to get as many hits as possible.
> >
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