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From: Wendall Cada <wendallc@83864.com>
To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SMTP Woes
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:07:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071130110712.3dde9768@83864.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474FB504.5090209@electronsweatshop.com>

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:00:20 -0500
Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com> wrote:

> I am getting a huge number of connections to my mail server (postfix)
> compared to usual.  I've seen as many as 50 connections open at one
> time.  The logs show that the connections are from several computers
> of varying IPs, and they are all trying to send mail to random
> mailboxes on my domain.  It's very annoying, and I have noticed that
> inbound mail seems to be lagging by several hours.  Is there
> something similar to denyhosts for spammers?  Any other suggestions?
> 

Sorry, I missed that you are using postfix. Are you using a sql
database for your lookups?

Wendall
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-30 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-30  7:00 [gentoo-server] SMTP Woes Randy Barlow
2007-11-30 10:22 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2007-11-30 11:34   ` Kerin Millar
2007-11-30 19:41     ` Lindsay Haisley
2007-11-30 18:27 ` Wendall Cada
2007-11-30 19:07 ` Wendall Cada [this message]
2007-11-30 22:57   ` Randy Barlow
2007-12-03 18:46     ` [gentoo-server] Interesting IP Aliasing Problem M Summers
2007-12-03 20:03       ` Konstantin Astafjev
2007-12-03 20:34         ` RijilV
2007-12-03 21:20           ` Re[2]: " Konstantin Astafjev
2007-12-03 21:06         ` M Summers
2007-12-06 21:09 ` [gentoo-server] SMTP Woes Olaf Niermann

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