On 3/31/07, Mark Martinec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gary, > > > > Here are some good reasons to continue checking outgoing mail: > > > > All good points and in fact I personally do not bypass spam scanning > > in my MYNETS policy bank. There is one thing I have always questioned > > about zombies however, I would have to guess that it is unlikely that > > a zombie would ever direct its payload at a local mail server. > > It happened to us twice in the past few years, despite all precautions. > Two things saved our butt to a large extent (but not 100%): > > - postfix rate limiting (anvil service); > - amavisd-new + SA filtering of outgoing mail; >
I had limited success with anvil. It's not very configurable, no different limits per subnet ... There is a nice paper on rate limting outgoint mails from the tech. university of vienna. http://spam.ani.univie.ac.at/files/cnis05.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
