Re: heavy traffic on port 25

2001-03-22 Thread Paulo Jan
"Hubbard, David" wrote: Check the logging from your tcpserver on port 25, if you see a lot of status 256's over and over, like one to ten per second, then it could be a broken Microsoft SMTP Service server trying to deliver mail to you. MS's SMTP Service tries to send emails without the

Re: heavy traffic on port 25

2001-03-22 Thread Krzysztof Wychowalek
On 21 Mar 01, at 18:39, Charles Cazabon wrote: What is more interesting is that even if I stop qmail, the traffic is still coming to the port 25 in the same amount. :-o qmail-smtpd is sometimes started separately, typically under tcpserver. It won't stop when you stop the main qmail

heavy traffic on port 25

2001-03-21 Thread Krzysztof Wychowalek
Dear friends, I have a server running Qmail as as MTA and about 300 mail accounts. I realized that I'm experiencing huge amount of incoming traffic to the port 25, it's like 1 MB per minute, so it slows down my Internet connection dramatically. This is only incoming traffic, both outgoing

Re: heavy traffic on port 25

2001-03-21 Thread Mark Delany
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:30:26PM +0100, Krzysztof Wychowalek wrote: Dear friends, I have a server running Qmail as as MTA and about 300 mail accounts. I realized that I'm experiencing huge amount of incoming traffic to the port 25, it's like 1 MB per minute, so it slows down my Internet

Re: heavy traffic on port 25

2001-03-21 Thread Jack Thomas
- Original Message - From: Krzysztof Wychowalek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 2:30 PM Subject: heavy traffic on port 25 Dear friends, I have a server running Qmail as as MTA and about 300 mail accounts. I realized that I'm experiencing huge

RE: heavy traffic on port 25

2001-03-21 Thread Hubbard, David
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RE: heavy traffic on port 25

2001-03-21 Thread Krzysztof Wychowalek
Is the incoming traffic from a specific IP address? Or Block of IP's? No, or at least I cannot see it among thousands of IP's that send smtp messages to my server. Are you "sure" it's incoming only? Yes, I use iptraf, and tcpdump. Of total SMTP traffic, 97% is incoming and 3% is

Re: heavy traffic on port 25

2001-03-21 Thread Charles Cazabon
Krzysztof Wychowalek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is more interesting is that even if I stop qmail, the traffic is still coming to the port 25 in the same amount. :-o qmail-smtpd is sometimes started separately, typically under tcpserver. It won't stop when you stop the main qmail