Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Quoting Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this is hogging my mail servers. Probably a

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Justin Mason
Henrik Krohns writes: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 02:20:21AM -0500, Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting Henrik Krohns [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:09:27AM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: I knew things like this would eventually happen. Spammers basically have infinite resources,

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Chris Edwards
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Jason Haar wrote: | What if SMTP servers report a 5XX and then drop the connection? I know | that's not compliant, but a real mail server would have got the 5XX and | so (mainly) wouldn't retry, and a spammer would have their connection | terminated. In exim-speak this is

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Henrik Krohns [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:09:27AM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: I knew things like this would eventually happen. Spammers basically have infinite resources, they can deliver us a LOT of hurt when they wish to. I can think of a lot worse things they

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Matthias Haeker
Hi all probably more a sendmail Question and i googled around but may someone can give me a short input for 5xx i have $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: 550 Mail from [ ${client_addr} ] Rejected. in my sendmail.cf does anybody know how i have to change it to 421 $#error $@ 4.2.1 $: 421 Mail from [

[OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Rajkumar S
Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this is hogging my mail servers. Probably a new crop of spamming tools? I am attaching

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this is hogging my mail servers. Probably a

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Rick Macdougall
Rajkumar S wrote: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this is hogging my mail servers. Probably a new crop of spamming

RE: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Johnson, S
@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ? Quoting Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Mr. Gus
Rajkumar S wrote: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this is hogging my mail servers. Probably a new crop of spamming

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Kelson
Johnson, S wrote: It's interesting you say that I don't give a response (most of the time they're not there to receive it anyway and it clogs up my server with undeliverable email - especially in BIG spam attacks). I have not experienced this with my servers at all. Last week, a friend of

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On 9/6/07, Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Jason Haar
Aaron Wolfe wrote: Same problem here on several servers. Reducing the timeout helps, but violates RFC and is simply reducing the effects rather than fixing the issue. Is there any RFC valid way for a server to hang up on a client, especially after a 5xx? What if SMTP servers report a 5XX

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread mouss
Aaron Wolfe wrote: On 9/6/07, Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Rajkumar S
On 9/6/07, Rick Macdougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For qmail I added the file timeoutsmtpd in /var/qmail/control with a value of 180 inside it (default is 7200) and it seems to have fixed the problem without causing any new problems. Thanks, I have changed timeoutsmtpd to 60 and the server is