Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Quoting Rajkumar S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of > > weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and > > all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this > > is hogging my mail servers. Pro

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Chris Edwards
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Jason Haar wrote: | What if SMTP servers report a 5XX and then drop the connection? I know | that's not compliant, but a real mail server would have got the 5XX and | so (mainly) wouldn't retry, and a spammer would have their connection | terminated. In exim-speak this is "dro

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Justin Mason
Henrik Krohns writes: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 02:20:21AM -0500, Jeff Chan wrote: > > Quoting Henrik Krohns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:09:27AM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: > > > > > > > > I knew things like this would eventually happen. Spammers basically have > > > >

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Matthias Haeker
Hi all probably more a sendmail Question and i googled around but may someone can give me a short input for 5xx i have $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "550 Mail from [" $&{client_addr} "] Rejected. in my sendmail.cf does anybody know how i have to change it to 421 $#error $@ 4.2.1 $: "421 Mail from ["

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-07 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Henrik Krohns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:09:27AM +1200, Jason Haar wrote: > > > > I knew things like this would eventually happen. Spammers basically have > > infinite resources, they can deliver us a LOT of hurt when they wish to. > > I can think of a lot worse thin

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Rajkumar S
On 9/6/07, Rick Macdougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For qmail I added the file timeoutsmtpd in /var/qmail/control with a > value of 180 inside it (default is 7200) and it seems to have fixed the > problem without causing any new problems. Thanks, I have changed timeoutsmtpd to 60 and the serve

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread mouss
Aaron Wolfe wrote: On 9/6/07, Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quoting Rajkumar S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. T

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Jason Haar
Aaron Wolfe wrote: > > Same problem here on several servers. Reducing the timeout helps, but > violates RFC and is simply reducing the effects rather than fixing the > issue. Is there any RFC valid way for a server to hang up on a > client, especially after a 5xx? > What if SMTP servers report a

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On 9/6/07, Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoting Rajkumar S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > > Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of > > weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and > > all experience the same problem. The spam

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Kelson
Johnson, S wrote: It's interesting you say that I don't give a response (most of the time they're not there to receive it anyway and it clogs up my server with undeliverable email - especially in BIG spam attacks). I have not experienced this with my servers at all. Last week, a friend of mi

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Mr. Gus
Rajkumar S wrote: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this is hogging my mail servers. Probably a new crop of spamming tool

RE: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Johnson, S
Rajkumar S Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ? Quoting Rajkumar S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of > weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Rick Macdougall
Rajkumar S wrote: Hi, Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this is hogging my mail servers. Probably a new crop of spamming tool

Re: [OT] Seeing increase in smtp concurrency ?

2007-09-06 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Rajkumar S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Does any one seeing increasing smtp concurrency for the past couple of > weeks? I run couple of (qmail/simscan/spamassassin) mail servers and > all experience the same problem. The spam does not increase, but this > is hogging my mail servers. Prob