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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, John Dennis Elliott wrote: > I apologize for sort of being off topic. I also belong to cobequidnet, > whcih uses Chebucto's software. Prem Dhir, our chairman, has been sorting > out the spam that comes in. Lately, some days the root directory has 1000 > spams. 1000 messages in the root mailbox per day? Ouch. > How is Chebucto avoiding this problem? Newer releases of ZMailer allow blocking mail from certain senders (envelope SMTP senders, not From: headers) and domains, and denying incoming mail from hosts listed on the MAPS RBL (http://maps.vix.com) which are often hijacked to send spam. Yesterday someone in Denver connected and tried to send a message to several hundred local mailing lists and users, but we noticed the load average shoot up and stopped the mail system to clean it out.
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