Re: Hostile vs. Friendly instances of Sendmail

2006-08-28 Thread David Robillard
On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Brett Glass wrote: A company for whom I do consulting has a FreeBSD mail server. Because they're being deluged with connections from spammers (who have responded to the increasing use of graylisting by ordering their armies of bots to try again and again even when

Hostile vs. Friendly instances of Sendmail

2006-08-25 Thread Brett Glass
A company for whom I do consulting has a FreeBSD mail server. Because they're being deluged with connections from spammers (who have responded to the increasing use of graylisting by ordering their armies of bots to try again and again even when spam is rejected), they've subscribed to some

Re: Hostile vs. Friendly instances of Sendmail

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
Use MailScanner and configure it to use blacklists and to delete not bounce SPAM. -Derek At 02:57 PM 8/25/2006, Brett Glass wrote: A company for whom I do consulting has a FreeBSD mail server. Because they're being deluged with connections from spammers (who have responded to the

Re: Hostile vs. Friendly instances of Sendmail

2006-08-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Brett Glass wrote: A company for whom I do consulting has a FreeBSD mail server. Because they're being deluged with connections from spammers (who have responded to the increasing use of graylisting by ordering their armies of bots to try again and again even

Re: Hostile vs. Friendly instances of Sendmail

2006-08-25 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:32 PM 8/25/2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: You should consider configuring a firewall to limit the number of incoming SMTP connections permitted to something less than the max number of sendmail processes you want to run in parallel, so internal users will always have some sendmail