Dan Spray wrote:

> I understand that these time outs are spam.  But is there a way to clean
> them out of the queue and keep them out?  I have tried deleting all the
> messages in the queue and more just come right back.  There are 700+ of =
> them
> in the almost all the time.
> 
Either block by IP or domain name.  One one server we don't do filtering 
except for those servers/domains which repeatedly give connection refused or 
timed out.  In this case, I go through the mailq output looking for messages 
from MAILER-DAEMON and take the domain name of the sender and add it to a 
reject map.  A bit of scripting and this could be made much quicker.

Also, see why the bouces are being generated.  If you are using this as a 
frontend to IMail, do you export your users to Postfix?  This would allow 
postfix to do a reject for unknown users instead of bouncing them.

Keep in mind that on a busy server there will always be a number of valid 
connection timed out or rejected messages that aren't the result of spam 
just varying network issues.

-- 
Chris Scott
Host Orlando, Inc
http://www.hostorlando.com/


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