Jordan Geoghegan wrote in <a0b2e6b6-5710-f40b-c626-52b57eb3d362@geoghega\ n.ca>: | | |On 2020-01-10 03:04, Pierre Abbat wrote: |> My mailserver is being attacked by what looks like a botnet since \ |> December 16 |> at 6:07 (11:07 UTC). Many hosts all over the world are sending mail \ |> purporting |> to be from many domains all over the world to a few domains in Russia. \ |> Most of |> the IP addresses are blocked by uceprotect.net; a few are blocked \ |> by other |> blocklists. A few are not blocked, but are rejected with "Relay access |> denied". The messages come at a rate of several per second. |> |> There are 133 emails stuck in leaf's mail queue, but they do not \ |> appear to be |> related to this attack. |> |> Pierre | |When dealing with spam, there is no magic one size fits all solution. In |order to mitigate spam, you'll need to come up with a multi-layered |anti-spam solution. | | I'm not sure what Steffans issue with OpenSMTPD was, it sounds like he |made himself an open relay. I've run OpenSMTPD for a while now and its |been working wonderfully for me.
My issue was in 2017. I ran OpenSMTPD for a few days before 2017-10-28. Nice that it works for you. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
