Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

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From: Craig Skinner
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 4:40 am

RW wrote:

Yes, but the OPs problem is back scatter, and that does not come from 
bots, they don't retry.

$ man spamd:

DESCRIPTION
      spamd is a fake sendmail(8)-like daemon which rejects false mail.
      It is designed to be very efficient so that it does not slow down
      the receiving machine.
..
..
      greylisted hosts are redirected to spamd, but spamd has not yet
      decided if they are likely spammers.  They are given a temporary
      failure message by spamd when they try to deliver mail.


Greylisting works brilliantly for bots, but wont help with hosts that 
retry, as is the case in back scatter.

If the OP was repeatedly getting mail to a few addresses from different 
hosts, he could use grey trapping. But he said that they are all random.
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Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Tue Sep 25, 4:30 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Craig Skinner, (Tue Sep 25, 4:40 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Chris Smith, (Tue Sep 25, 7:51 am)
Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, RW, (Tue Sep 25, 4:04 pm)
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Re: SMTP flood + spamdb, Liviu Daia, (Tue Sep 25, 5:16 pm)
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