Okay, I'm ready to ramp up to annoyed with the attempts against my mailservers. I recall some time ago that Labrea was popular, however, it seems to have disappeared. In fact, the mailing list at sourceforge is nothing but pornographic spam (I realize I just lost part of my audience, who are now off to check it out).
First, the ground rules. I *want* to have my machines with sendmail running, and available externally. I'm not looking for any solution that involves NAT, or proxies, or similar stuff. What I *am* looking for is an approach that will slow down the crap. Greylisting software is okay by me, and I'm happy for any suggestions on that. Really, no one outside should be sending email to my machines, except for oh-so-rare occasions, and having a whitelist of allowed senders would probably work, as would other approaches. My current approach is to kill -9 sendmail on the machines until the automated scanners give up and go away, and then go back in and restart it. This is a bit cumbersome, and very annoying. Ideas? What happened to Labrea anyway? -- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. Brian W. Kernighan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
