Hello All,

I have been watching my SMTP.LOG for a while, and noticing a lot of spam
attempts... a section of my log shows:

[2003-03-01 08:47:43] OK [24.129.152.59] [HELO] hotmail.com
[2003-03-01 08:47:45] OK [24.129.152.59] [HELO] mx2.hotmail.com
[2003-03-01 08:47:45] OK [24.129.152.59] [MAIL] From:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:45] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:45] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:45] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:45] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:45] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:45] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [MAIL] From:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RSET]
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [QUIT]
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:46] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:47] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:47] OK [24.129.152.59] [RCPT]
To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2003-03-01 08:47:47] OK [24.129.152.59] [RSET]
[2003-03-01 08:47:47] OK [24.129.152.59] [QUIT]


Obvisouly, none of those email addresses exist, so all the attempts will
bounce.

My question is - is there ANY way to stop this? Or even control it?? I have
many IPs blocked in SECURITY.INI, but it doesn't seem to help much.

I wanted to write the list and see what others using Sambar in a commercial
environment where doing to combat this.

Thanks in advance!
-jim
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