The mail server drops connections where the recipient does not exist on my system, so all those connections get dropped. (it means that if someone sends to the wrong spelling of my address it gets dropped too, but hey its not hard to spell the names of the 4 or 5 allowed users).
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:37:24 +0100 Rik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any way of stopping them client end? (random numeric usernames) > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 03:23, Nick Rout wrote: > > going through the mail logs (on my LINUX mail server) its just beyond > > belief that in the 24 hours ending at 4 am this morning, there were 8787 > > attempts to send email to non-existent users at my domain. > > > > usually to random groups of letters like [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Thank god they never get beyond that point. > > > > spam for dinner anyone? > -- > GNU/Linux User ~ Mandrake10 i686 kernal 2.6.3-7mdk GNOME-2.4.1-desktop > Evolution-1.4.6-email Epiphany-1.0.7-browser OpenOffice.org-1.1.0-suite > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
