> Ok, you delete an account; yet, mail continues to come in at that > address. Of course, it kills the message and sends an error message > back to the sender...
No, the message should never be received by your server; the address should be rejected during the SMTP envelope (which consumes its small share of resources, but nothing like receiving a message entirely). Are you using IMail's 'nobody' alias (a catchall account)? If not, IMail will not accept mail to unknown users at local domains. There is likely a configuration error if 'tis not so at your site. > So, if I get spam from 212.212.212.212, will all mail from that > address in the future be blocked? If not, why not keep track of how > much they send and then ban them. This is what public DNS-based blacklists, queryable by IMail 8 directly or by Declude with any IMail version, are designed for. Whether you maintain private IP blacklists is simply a matter of the personpower dedicated to messaging systems. -Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
