Maybe there is a firewall kind of app that can be used to monitor connections and block an IP if the connection rate is too high or something? I know there are anti-DOS apps that can do similar things, so maybe one of them is tunable for this purpose.
Rich. On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 15:15, Jacques Beaudoin wrote: > I have my dbmail+postfix+amavis_new+fprot server running > and im blocking 7000 spams+virus a day (2,555,000 per year !outch!). > > Well so much for spams comming from the internet. > > Yesterday i made a small script using a mysql querry > and the linux sort program to get a cumulative > readout of there last_login. > > And via cron i executed that script at every minutes > for 3 hours to get a summary for the 3 hours. > > Well i have more then 400 POP3 spammers (teachers with phd). > > Some have setup there pc to check for mail every minutes > others at every 2 minutes and others at every 5 minutes even > if they where ask not to do that. > > I plan to make a other script to send a automatic email to all > the pop3 spammers. > > Does anybody have a other solution ? > > 1 - Have dbmail 2.0 refuse rapid pop3 queries > but what the heck there getting to dbmail anyway > 2 - Quick there derriere > 3 - Fire them > 4 - Send them back to school so they no 60 x 24 = 1440 pop3 querys a day > 5 - Send them back to school so they can help me write scripts > 6 - > 7 - > 8 - > 9 - > 10- > > > Jacques Beaudoin > Responsable des accès internet / Internet security manager > Commission scolaire de la Pointe de l'Ile / School board > Montréal, Québec, Canada > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
