We have been using policyd for a while in conjunction with redirecting all 
outbound port 25 traffic to our smtp server.  Works great. 

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Jon Auer
> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 9:48 AM
> To: WISPA General List
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT, pesky email stuff
> 
> We are moving to Postfix with PolicyD (http://www.policyd.org) to
> solve this exact problem.
> PolicyD lets you limit the total number of emails sent per user per
> day. No reason a normal home user should be sending 1000 messages per
> day and this will let us limit it. There may be a plugin for Courier
> that does the same thing.
> 
> There is still the issue of people flagging the jokes between friends
> and church newsletters as spam instead of deleting...
> 
> Some larger mail shops run all their outbound email through a spam
> filter to stop outbound stuff. If the spam is coming from a botnet
> there is a chance the spam signature is already in the spam filter
> database. I know some people use SpamAssassian for this.
> 
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Marlon K.
> Schafer<[email protected]> 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
> >
> >
> >
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