[xmail] Re: is there a new SPAM program out there?

2005-02-26 Thread Tracy
At 09:55 2/26/2005, Liron Newman wrote: >Phillip R. Shaw wrote: > > >I make up lots of email addresses, this is a personal domain, every > >website I go to I make up a new email address for them. Means I can't > >block non-existing addresses. > > >Just a quick comment about this - I use the same me

[xmail] Re: is there a new SPAM program out there?

2005-02-26 Thread Liron Newman
Phillip R. Shaw wrote: >I make up lots of email addresses, this is a personal domain, every >website I go to I make up a new email address for them. Means I can't >block non-existing addresses. > Just a quick comment about this - I use the same method for avoiding SPAM, and I encountered the same

[xmail] Re: is there a new SPAM program out there?

2005-02-26 Thread Phillip R. Shaw
Welcome to the club :( I have a list of about 400 email addresses that get hit all the time, I reject 6-8000 messages a day. (max was around 20,000 at Christmas/new years time frame) I am pretty sure that the source ips are from virus infected machines under control of a master program. And the i

[xmail] Re: is there a new SPAM program out there?

2005-02-26 Thread Sönke Ruempler
On Saturday, February 26, 2005 8:47 AM [GMT+1=CET], Lev Shamilov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The average size of SMTP log file on my network is 1 to 2 MB. > A couple of days ago it was 20MB. Well, I had situations like > this once in awhile. Usually some idiot spammer tries to send > mail through

[xmail] Re: is there a new SPAM program out there?

2005-02-26 Thread decker
Hello, *warning: there is no real answer here, only ramblings* >From what you describe, it sounds a lot like how some resource quench attack >programs work, without being quite as nasty (closing connections, not being >forked but in a strictly sequential one-host-at-a-time order.) The reason a

[xmail] is there a new SPAM program out there?

2005-02-26 Thread Lev Shamilov
The average size of SMTP log file on my network is 1 to 2 MB. A couple of days ago it was 20MB. Well, I had situations like this once in awhile. Usually some idiot spammer tries to send mail through my server to non-existing addresses in my domain and gets "RCPT=EAVAIL" response. ...no big deal he