[CentOS] sendmail many emails
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.comSat May 15 17:01:04 UTC 2010
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Jerry Geis wrote: > I was getting MANY emails from XXX.hinet.net - kind of filled my mqueue > directory. > I stopped sendmail. removed all the files in mqueue, added to sendmail > access a REJECT for hinet.net > This certainly seems to help - but is that the correct way to take care > of this sort of thing? > You probably need to do something more drastic like setting up spam/virus scanning and maybe graylisting. This sort of thing happens a lot. But, unless these were addressed to actual users, they shouldn't have been accepted and queued anyway. Are you running a relay that accepts anything for a domain and forwards it? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
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