Re: Qmail attack

2001-04-04 Thread Sean Reifschneider
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:30:48PM -, Renato wrote: >Could you tell me more about RSS ? http://mail-abuse.org/rss/ Sean -- You know you're in Canada when: A radio advertisement comes on advertising "Buy a case of beer, get a free touque." Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <[EMA

Re: Qmail attack

2001-04-04 Thread Renato
Could you tell me more about RSS ? > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:00:03PM -0600, Keary Suska wrote: > >I had a similar experience, but it wasn't actually a mail bomb, it was a > >SPAM attempt. If a spammer thinks that your domain may be a free email > > Yeah, I've had that happen a couple of tim

Re: Qmail attack

2001-04-04 Thread Sean Reifschneider
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:00:03PM -0600, Keary Suska wrote: >I had a similar experience, but it wasn't actually a mail bomb, it was a >SPAM attempt. If a spammer thinks that your domain may be a free email Yeah, I've had that happen a couple of times to one of my domains. Not sure how they deci

Re: Qmail attack

2001-04-03 Thread Keary Suska
I had a similar experience, but it wasn't actually a mail bomb, it was a SPAM attempt. If a spammer thinks that your domain may be a free email service, they will attempt delivery with an apparently random list of users, which I believe is extracted from other free email services. You could try t

Re: Qmail attack

2001-04-03 Thread Renato
I'm using tcpserver ( ucspi-tcp ). ( basically Bruce's RPM for RedHat ). > Renato wrote: > > > > Well, naturally somebody can connect to port 25 and send this mail with > > these headers. But the attacker used a script and sent the same message > > thousands of time !!! My queue grow to more th

Re: Qmail attack

2001-04-03 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
Renato wrote: > > Well, naturally somebody can connect to port 25 and send this mail with > these headers. But the attacker used a script and sent the same message > thousands of time !!! My queue grow to more than 10.000 messages in > minutes !! > > What can I do to avoid this type of attack ? >