Re: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Woods
Chris Santerre wrote: > > FWIW: I think traffic is up all around. I'm seeing a definite increase in the past weeks. Most are being stopped via RBLs, but > there is a lot more to stop! I'll second that, my account alone has been getting around 230 caught spams a day and quite a good few missed,

RE: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-18 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: I'm getting killed with spammers FWIW: I think traffic is up all around. I'm seeing a definite increase in the past weeks. Most are being stopped via RBLs, but there is a lot more to stop! --Chris

RE: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
Debbie D wrote: > > On Mon, October 16, 2006 2:28 pm, Debbie D said: > > > > > this high amount of spam, (BTW scoring at 20-well over 1000) is > > > killing the loads and I have screaming clients.. > > > > > > Just this afternoon (again around 12.30) it loaded up again with > > > 312 mails.. the

R: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-18 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> Sorry, I was being a bit vague, I've got a stateful firewall between my > mailserver and the external world, and I kept seeing that there were > session timeouts "no_connection_for_this_packet" from a lot of different > places. > > There's absolutely no problems with my connection or my mails

Re: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-18 Thread nick
John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 18 October 2006 00:50, nick wrote: So that's what my firewall has been killing. I kept noticing timeout sessions with my mailserver (in the firewall log), and wondered why that was happening. You should see anvil messages in mail log, but from the man page i

Re: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-18 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 00:50, nick wrote: > So that's what my firewall has been killing. > > I kept noticing timeout sessions with my mailserver (in the firewall > log), and wondered why that was happening. You should see anvil messages in mail log, but from the man page it is not at all cl

Re: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-18 Thread nick
John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 17 October 2006 23:09, Bill Taroli wrote: Debbie D wrote: Last Mon, Tues & Wed I had severe inflow of spam, always at 12.30p EST, Wed it didn't stop till almost 5p. The server seems to not be very cooperative when the queue grows over 200 or so. ... this high amo

Re: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-18 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 23:09, Bill Taroli wrote: > Debbie D wrote: > > Last Mon, Tues & Wed I had severe inflow of spam, always at 12.30p EST, > > Wed it didn't stop till almost 5p. The server seems to not be very > > cooperative when the queue grows over 200 or so. > > ... > > this high amount

Re: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-18 Thread Bill Taroli
Debbie D wrote: Last Mon, Tues & Wed I had severe inflow of spam, always at 12.30p EST, Wed it didn't stop till almost 5p. The server seems to not be very cooperative when the queue grows over 200 or so. ... this high amount of spam, (BTW scoring at 20-well over 1000) is killing the loads and

Re: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-17 Thread Debbie D
> On Mon, October 16, 2006 2:28 pm, Debbie D said: > >> this high amount of spam, (BTW scoring at 20-well over 1000) is killing >> the loads and I have screaming clients.. >> >> Just this afternoon (again around 12.30) it loaded up again with 312 >> mails.. the web based control panel was reacting

RE: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-16 Thread R Lists06
> > I need some help here.. > > Last Mon, Tues & Wed I had severe inflow of spam, always at 12.30p EST, > Wed > it didn't stop till almost 5p. The server seems to not be very cooperative > when the queue grows over 200 or so. > > I have max child set to 15 (up from 5) and not sure what else I c

Re: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-16 Thread Logan Shaw
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Debbie D wrote: I have max child set to 15 (up from 5) and not sure what else I can offer in the way of what you need to know to help me, but if you tell me where to look I can spout what you need. : : Just this afternoon (again around 12.30) it loaded up again with

Re: I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-16 Thread Daniel T. Staal
On Mon, October 16, 2006 2:28 pm, Debbie D said: > this high amount of spam, (BTW scoring at 20-well over 1000) is killing > the loads and I have screaming clients.. > > Just this afternoon (again around 12.30) it loaded up again with 312 > mails.. the web based control panel was reacting so slow

I'm getting killed with spammers

2006-10-16 Thread Debbie D
I am a learn as I go type of hosting.. my server with cpanel exim SA and ClamAV does a good job for the most part but since last Monday I have been getting major issues.. I do read this list when I have time or remember to do so but more importantly when issues crop up, sometimes I get it, some