[Mimedefang] How to trap this spam

[Bill Maidment]

Lucas Albers wrote:

>U need a maximum reject time.
>I reject for a maximum of 3 minutes on any new ip address.
>You need to configure it so there is a maximum penalty time...
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>You could then assign a penalty for machines that reconnect within 30
>seconds of the initial connect, and then up the penalty to your maximum
>penalty time.
>So your worst offenders could be delayed up to 15 minutes as a maximum
>delay time.
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OK Thanks for that.


>You greylist on the ip address of the sending machine, correct?
>So how does it slip by on a secondary mx?
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I was greylisting on $RelayAddr and that is came through from the secondary as the ip address of the secondary, so everything coming through the secondary has the same $RelayAddr regardless of the original sender.

Should I be using some other variable?


Cheers
Bill