Check into configuring in server.tab [CustMapsList]. This should help a lot.
-Don -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henri van Riel Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 12:26 PM To: xmail@xmailserver.org Subject: [xmail] Spammers - How to block them. Hi all, I've got a peculiar problem. My domain (a sub-domain of my ISP) receives a lot of (spam) email. I'm talking more than 15,000 emails per day (about 10mb/hour). All these emails are for recipients *not* defined on my domain. Someone has simply generated thousands of fake email addresses and put them on a cd and sells that (probably). I've set up XMail so that it only accepts mail for known users, so I don't really receive these emails. The problem is that my smtp threads are always *busy*. When I try to send email from outside my LAN through my mailserver at home I always get the message `server too busy, retry later...` because all my SMTP threads are handling mail from these spammers... What I would like is that XMail *immediately* drops the connection with the spammer's mailserver but it doesn't seem to do that. Connections stay open for a while because this server has dozens of emails to deliver to my server (all for users that don't exist!). Is there a way to immediately drop the connection with the server that tries to deliver mail to an unknown user and also ban this particular mail server for at least a day? That would decrease the number of random emails significantly and save me a lot on bandwidth. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Henri. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
