Re: too many postfix smtp active internet connections

2009-08-04 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Clunk Werclick clunk.wercl...@wibblywobblyteapot.co.uk: On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 16:08 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Get rid of the backscatter: http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html Wietse Has anybody implemented something like this with Postfix?

Re: too many postfix smtp active internet connections

2009-08-04 Thread Clunk Werclick
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 08:12 +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: You need the milter capabilities from Postfix 2.6. Use the batv-milter. That's all I know at the moment. I am confused? batv-milter? Is it not pvrs? I see this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/batv-milter/ The idea looks very

Re: too many postfix smtp active internet connections

2009-08-03 Thread Wietse Venema
jessk...@brel.com: Dear netizens sorry to trouble you. My server is just overloaded with too much spams. When I view the output of netstat -ln, there are over 400 ip addresses connecting to my postfix server actively. In our mail.log, the connections are from these ip addresses that had

Re: too many postfix smtp active internet connections

2009-08-03 Thread Clunk Werclick
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 16:08 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Get rid of the backscatter: http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html Wietse Has anybody implemented something like this with Postfix? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_Address_Tag_Validation Any observations or advice?