Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

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To: Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@...>
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Date: Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 11:53 pm

On 9/23/07, Darrin Chandler wrote:

They seemed pretty random to me, but I did a quick
check after reading your response and I see 468 unique
"fake" email address @my-domain, only one was
duplicated twice.

This was in the span of about 1 hour, from 13:38 to 14:31
Pacific time. After which I enabled filtering of SMTP port
'til I figure out what I am going to do.

I can't imagine entering all those address as spamtraps.

Another user suggested greytrapping in private email,
which made me reread spamd(8) a couple of times, at
least the 'GREYTRAPPING' section, which mentions
/etc/mail/spamd.alloweddomains file. It doesn't specifically
say one could use it to enter valid email address in that
file, but a naive look at the source spamd/grey.c suggests
it could work. I plan on giving this a try unless someone
from the list advises against it.

Is there anyway one could flush the GREY entries from
spamdb? I had the problem where I would clear the WHITE
entries that didn't belong, but the WHITE list would grow
rapidly out of control again.

I'm not sure if this is related or not, but I have noticed
that a few times yesterday and once again tonight around 8PM
PDT, spamd-setup failed on ftp with "connection time out".

Thanks for all the replies.

> I had also done a log tailer that added to a blacklist, but that turned

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Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, RW, (Tue Sep 25, 7:00 am)
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Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Tue Sep 25, 8:16 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, RW, (Wed Sep 26, 12:25 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Tue Sep 25, 7:40 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, RW, (Tue Sep 25, 7:04 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Wed Sep 26, 4:00 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 7:18 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Damien Miller, (Wed Sep 26, 8:45 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 9:27 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Jeremy C. Reed, (Wed Sep 26, 9:51 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Wed Sep 26, 9:41 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 10:02 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Eric Johnson, (Thu Sep 27, 5:45 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Dave Anderson, (Wed Sep 26, 11:03 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Wed Sep 26, 11:26 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, RW, (Wed Sep 26, 6:21 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Stuart Henderson, (Wed Sep 26, 11:23 am)
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Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 1:05 pm)
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Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Rob, (Wed Sep 26, 5:51 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Wed Sep 26, 6:17 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Jeremy C. Reed, (Wed Sep 26, 1:48 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 2:16 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Bob Beck, (Wed Sep 26, 1:22 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Juan Miscaro, (Thu Sep 27, 12:36 pm)
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Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Luca Corti, (Wed Sep 26, 10:22 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 10:38 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Luca Corti, (Wed Sep 26, 11:59 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Wed Sep 26, 10:48 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Wed Sep 26, 11:01 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Luca Corti, (Wed Sep 26, 12:06 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Wed Sep 26, 4:46 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Tue Sep 25, 7:22 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Tue Sep 25, 4:50 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Tue Sep 25, 3:38 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Darrin Chandler, (Sun Sep 23, 8:39 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, patrick keshishian, (Sun Sep 23, 11:53 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Stuart Henderson, (Mon Sep 24, 6:47 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, patrick keshishian, (Mon Sep 24, 11:01 pm)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Stuart Henderson, (Tue Sep 25, 5:29 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Stuart Henderson, (Tue Sep 25, 6:56 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Tue Sep 25, 7:30 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Chris Smith, (Tue Sep 25, 10:51 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Wed Sep 26, 3:50 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Tue Sep 25, 6:36 am)
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