Re: Having been open relay for a moment (summary)

2002-10-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Thanks to all who replied. I decided to make a summary of the replies as some of them were private. On 8.X.2002 at 15:36 Anton Zinoviev wrote: 1. The spammers continue attempts to use lml.bas.bg as a relay. As a result exim generates about 50Mb log files per hour. How I can

Re: Having been open relay for a moment (summary)

2002-10-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Thanks to all who replied. I decided to make a summary of the replies as some of them were private. On 8.X.2002 at 15:36 Anton Zinoviev wrote: 1. The spammers continue attempts to use lml.bas.bg as a relay. As a result exim generates about 50Mb log files per hour. How I can

Having been open relay for a moment

2002-10-08 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi! Yesterday I received a report from ordb.org that the server I administer (lml.bas.bg) is an open relay. This information was used immediately by spammers. I was able to close the relay a few hours latter. I have some questions regarding this: 1. The spammers continue attempts to use

Re: Having been open relay for a moment

2002-10-08 Thread Tim Haynes
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. The spammers continue attempts to use lml.bas.bg as a relay. As a result exim generates about 50Mb log files per hour. How I can stop exim from logging messages like refused relay to ...? Any patterns in the attackers? One of the

Re: Having been open relay for a moment

2002-10-08 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:36:15PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hi! Yesterday I received a report from ordb.org that the server I administer (lml.bas.bg) is an open relay. This information was used immediately by spammers. I was able to close the relay a few hours latter. I have some

Re: Having been open relay for a moment

2002-10-08 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. Anton Zinoviev wrote: 3. In the log-files of exim I have a huge list of e-mail addresses of spammers (such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Can I do something useful with them? As they most possibly are forged: no. Drop them in the dustbin and forget about them. It is not worth

Having been open relay for a moment

2002-10-08 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi! Yesterday I received a report from ordb.org that the server I administer (lml.bas.bg) is an open relay. This information was used immediately by spammers. I was able to close the relay a few hours latter. I have some questions regarding this: 1. The spammers continue attempts to use

Re: Having been open relay for a moment

2002-10-08 Thread Tim Haynes
Anton Zinoviev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. The spammers continue attempts to use lml.bas.bg as a relay. As a result exim generates about 50Mb log files per hour. How I can stop exim from logging messages like refused relay to ...? Any patterns in the attackers? One of the

Re: Having been open relay for a moment

2002-10-08 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:36:15PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Hi! Yesterday I received a report from ordb.org that the server I administer (lml.bas.bg) is an open relay. This information was used immediately by spammers. I was able to close the relay a few hours latter. I have some