Re: Sample Procedure and commands for clearing Spam from your mail queues

2016-07-20 Thread Craig Skinner
On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:03:42 +0200 Christian Kellermann wrote: > Using a blacklist in smtpd.conf and updating that list would spare you > the troubles of touching the packet filter rules. > > Or am I missing something? # spamdb -t -a ip.ad.dr.ess -- You received this mail because you are subscr

Re: Sample Procedure and commands for clearing Spam from your mail queues

2016-07-19 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Christian, yes you are absolutely correct... this runbook was thrown together... for lads in trouble... I will look at updating it ... Legend thanks for the feedback Thanks Tom Smyth On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Christian Kellermann wrote: > Hi! > > * Tom Smyth [160719 15:48]: >

Re: Sample Procedure and commands for clearing Spam from your mail queues

2016-07-19 Thread Christian Kellermann
Hi! * Tom Smyth [160719 15:48]: > 1)# Turn off MTA ... this will let our mail server accept mail but it wont >forward it ... > smtpctl pause mta > 2) less /var/log/maillog # this will let you look for the offending >Source IP ... > 3) edit /etc/pf.conf and replace SPAM_SRC_IP with

Re: Sample Procedure and commands for clearing Spam from your mail queues

2016-07-19 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Lads, here is an updated procedure that might be a little less laboursome to clear nusiance mails from your mail queues once you have identified the culprit mail that you want to remove for example you want to remove bad_emailaddr...@domain.com for simplicty and not having to escape specia

Sample Procedure and commands for clearing Spam from your mail queues

2015-09-01 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Lads, I have had the unfortunate experience of having a client of my ISP fill my server queues with spam... I know I will have to increase my spam prevention measures, but for those of you who may experience the same I have a rough procedure for clearing down the spam in the mail queueus, this