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----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlon K. Schafer" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff > Yeah, I wonder about that too. Probably for two reasons, mainly because > they ARE the biggest spammers :-). There's money in it after all.... > hehehehe > > Mostly I'll bet that they have people watching for such activity in real > time. And they can tweak servers constantly. I have to catch things > after > the damage is done. > > There has to be a better way. > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "George Rogato" <[email protected]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 8:36 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff > > >> How come Google, Yahoo, and Live.com don't get black listed. >> I'm pretty sure 1 million times more spam comes out of those domains >> than any small independent isp's ... >> >> >> >> Marlon K. Schafer wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> What are you guys doing for email these days? I LOVE my setup for it's >>> reliability, ease of use etc. >>> >>> Hacked customer accounts and virus's are killing me though. We don't >>> catch >>> things until 100,000s of messages go out and we get black listed. This >>> has >>> now happened 3 or 4 times in the last couple of years. >>> >>> My server admins aren't coming up with a solution to this other than to >>> limit cc's to 25 per message. We did that once before and my phone rang >>> off >>> the hook because people can't send jokes to their friends..... >>> >>> The other thing that makes it hard is that the log files that I get (up >>> to >>> 40 megs per day!) don't list the authenticated sender, only the reply >>> address. So I see tens of thousands of messages from a user that's not >>> even >>> mine (faked info). sigh >>> >>> We use Courier MTA. >>> >>> My thought is to set the server to allow a max of 1000 messages per day >>> per >>> user. And to somehow make the log file ONLY send me the number of >>> messages >>> received per a user, and the number sent, user name and ip addy of all >>> those >>> sending. Twice now I've asked about that idea and gotten no response >>> from >>> the server admins. >>> >>> Suggestions? >>> >>> laters, >>> marlon >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
