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?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com