I'm primarily a web design person who used the now infamous qmailrocks
installation, on Slackware (about 6 years ago) and I'm in some deep water
- and pretty much, over my head. I make crappy money working for a chain
of mattress warehouses and the only thing keeping me eating is my ability
to design and hosts sites - and run the mail. And where I live, I'm one
of the only people I know with a job (Flint, Michigan). However, we are
getting so many external SMTP sessions that Comcast - who is fine with the
mail server - will cut us off when we start getting around 1000 external
sessions per day. It happened about a year ago. I started using somethng
called spamhaus.org and also changed my .qmail-default files to send mail
addressed to non-existant accounts to a local junk account. I thought
that stuff might help and it seemed to - for awhile. Not sure what
happened, but now it's creeping up again. If I tail my logs my server is
being hit every few seconds. I'd done some reading and was under the
impression that John Simpson's validrcptto patch would kill this problem.
I noticed that it's not part of this package. And now - after my life
story - my question: if I follow these directives will it put an end to
these smtp sessions from God knows where.... I would try to use John's
patch on my server but I'm not sharp enough to rebuild everything (the
smtpd-run file....and everything else) to work in conjunction with that
patch. Plain and simple, it's simply way beyond my skills.
I hate to bug the smart folks on these lists but, man, I am under the gun.
We are up around 700 or 800 SMTP sesssions a day. I'm 58, in bad health,
and I really need the ability to run a reasonably secure mail server in
order to continue eating. I didn't know what Linux was until I was 51 -
so I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Sorry this was so long - but I've hardly slept in about 4 nights. I have
to fix this..... I want to know if the included patches will kill this
extraordinary number of SMTP sessions.
Regards,
Guy Merritt
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