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 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > > 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/
