Re: hangin spamd

2005-06-14 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:55:54PM +0200, Gert Brantner wrote: > on some mails, the spamd process hangs forever & never times out. it > creates a lot of load & has to be killed ev. since it is alsways on > certain mail accounts, i suspect it beeing some malformed mail but i > could not f

Re: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-18 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:24:25AM -0800, Kelson wrote: > The backscatter becomes a real problem in the legitimate relay > situation, because it's basically unavoidable. If the spam is sent > directly to you, you can accept it, discard it, or reject it, and it > stops. But if you're re

Re: Spammers Target Secondary MX hosts?

2005-03-18 Thread Alexander Bochmann
...on Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:52:23AM -0500, Yang Xiao wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:48:46 +, Duncan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In a large number of cases, the secondary MX is not configured to know the > > list of valid users etc, and may be configured to pass directly to the >