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
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