Nice solution. Care to share the script? I presume you either don't use the submission port (587), or you have spamdyke running on it. If the later, why?
Thanks. -- -Eric 'shubes' On 05/21/2012 10:59 AM, Joe Nelson wrote: > We have a python script that checks the Spamdyke logs every 5 minutes > for users who have sent more emails than a predefined threshold. If > they have, it automatically changes their password to a randomly > generated one, immediately locking out the spammers who have access to > their account. It then emails technical support so that they can > contact the customer to get the problem resolved permanently. It's been > great for us to have this place and most customers understand that we're > actually protecting them, even if they are the ones who's accounts were > compromised. > > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Hartmut Wernisch | Domaintechnik.at > <h...@domaintechnik.at > <mailto:h...@domaintechnik.at>> wrote: > > On 16 May 12, Ratko Rudic wrote: > > Hi spamdykers! > > > > Is there a feature that would allow user to send only X emails in Y > > minutes. An example would be max 10 emails in 5 minutes? > > http://qmail-spp.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > And a subquestion: what do you do if user's password got leaked to > > spammers and then those spammers authenticate as this user. (and send > > enormous amount of spam in just couple of hours). > > Is there a way to prevent this? > > Monitoring :) > We use Nagios to monitor our services. Most spamming can be trapped by > watching the queue size. Maybe you want to monitor the message status > too. > > Best, > Hartmut > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > <mailto:spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org> > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > > > > > -- > Joe Nelson > Digital Worx > http://www.digitalworx.net > > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
