I've been noticing massive increases in the amount of address harvesting going on this month, coming from various unrelated IP addresses. Have any of you seen similar occurrences on your servers?
Note: by address harvesting I mean attempts to send messages to hundreds of different made up addresses on your server, so they can see which ones DON'T bounce. If an address doesn't bounce, they can harvest it and stick it in their database to sell off to spammers and advertisers. Maye 2/3 of these are caught by the RBL lists I use, but for the others the only protection I have is the "tempban" feature, which lets a few attemps get through and then blocks them for a while. Problem is they keep coming back so over time they end up occasionally harvesting some real addresses. Is there anyway I can modify the "tempban" feature to ban an address for, say 2-3 days instead of just 1200 seconds? I've been manually searching for repeat offenders and adding them to my own blacklist but that is a very labor intensive effort. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
