You could use qmHandle to remove them based on source or destination.

I believe it is a part of the qmailtoaster-plus suite.

You could also use MAXCONNIP="3" or some sane limit in tcp.smtp to
prevent flooding on a regular basis. It should, at the very minimum,
throttle how many times a misconfigured open relay could "send"
through your server.

Erik

On 10/2/07, Kyle Quillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well I think I found out where these came from.  One of my customers setup a
> microsoft server that is an open relay and it was relaying mail through me.
> I shut them down but I have a feeling it is going to take a while for these
> emails to flush out of the queue.
>
> Or i could just clear the queue all together.  Which i really don't want to
> do.
>
> I looked at the logs and was seeing alot of these emails coming from one ip
> which as it turns out they were an open relay.
>
> Any suggestions on getting these emails out of queue quicker?
>
> I set the queue lifetime down to 3000.
>
> Thanks
> q
>
>
>
> On 10/2/07, Erik A. Espinoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > What do the logs look like?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/2/07, Kyle Quillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I seem to have gotten hit by some kind of attack and am trying to figure
> out
> > > how to stop it.
> > >
> > >
> > > I have over 14,000 emails that are going to yahoo.com.tw email
> addresses.
> > >
> > > Any Idea how i can get this stopped?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > q
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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