Then again, if our customers aren't checking the root accounts, I might as well setup Declude to filter those boxes. But then again, they'll eventually fill up anyways. Afterall, these are high-volume spam "ATTACKS." The root accounts are receiving thousands of messages per day.
Dave
mail-lists wrote:
Maybe get an anti spam solution?
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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Delbridge Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] Spam to Root/Postmaster
Hi all,
I host a few hundred e-mail domains and my default "root" and "postmaster" accounts are suddenly being attacked by spammers, to the point that a recurring DoS situation occurs. [The root mailboxes fill up and the mail server then bogs down with "mailbox full" GSE replies to non-existent spam senders.]
Should I:
- Forward postmaster and root mail for all domains to my "master" postmaster account? [That's gonna be a LOT of junk mail for me to personally wade through. We're talkin' tens of thousands of messages per day.]
- Delete the unused root and postmaster accounts? [Afterall, they're all disabled by default. And this would allow our clients to setup their own postmaster forwarder to a working mail address, should they want to receive mail server alerts.]
- Rename the root and postmaster accounts?
- Other options?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Dave
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