>At the moment I am receiving around 1000 messages an hour - not one of these
>messages is addressed to my domain
you're getting mail bombed, denial of service, your log file is growing fast.
>The mails come from multipe sources, so restricting Access Control is not
>really feasible. Any ideas as to why multiple spammers would choose my
>domain?
Maybe you're an open relay? They detected you were vulerable, open?
>Why does IMail get stuck with the mails, rather than rejecting them
>as undeliverable (I had to create a pop box and setup up a 'nobody'
>forwarder to drop all emails into the box, otherwise they just hung around
>the system, not going anyway and causing SMTPd to take all CPU time)?
Hanging around with what status? Are they in the queue to be
delivered elsewhere? Are you running an open relay?
If Imail does not reject them all as unknown user, then what are your
smtp security settings?
Is it that the @andydomain is ok, but just the mailbox is unknown?
Len
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