> > And the worst thing is that most of them should be > > delivered. > > Please help... The other mail server that I have has > > more than 20K messages! > > There is no point bouncing spam to forged or innocent > senders. Stop bouncing the crap (and effectively double > the spam-load), and your queue will be just fine. > > Roland >
You have a very good point... but at what point can we determine that a bounce is spam or not? How do you distinguish between a "legitimate" bounce and one due to spam? I'm having major troubles with spammers as well, and my queue is almost 10,000 long. I've programmed a perlfilter that detects floods (either due to sender, ip, or recipient) and blocks those (generates 550 errors once the flood is detected) and with that I can see the tremendous amount of spam that is hitting my box. However, there is still a huge amount of bounces that are generated and are stuck in the queue. I can see, by manually diagnosing, that so much of that is bounces to "forged or innocent senders", but I don't know of a way to effectively determine whether a bounce is legitimate or not. Ricardo ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
