[Mimedefang] Dealing with massive spam burst

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Wed Sep 8 14:02:06 EDT 2004


> You should be doing this anyway.  All mail servers have a growing onus
> on them to SMTP reject incoming emails at the organization boundary
> wherever possible. There are various methods depending on the version
> of Exchange you use.  A cron job to run an LDAP query and generate a
> sendmail "access" file is commonly used.  Search the list archives for details.

Has anyone come up with a 'pure sendmail' way to accomplish this?  That
is, given a firewalled machine running sendmail, to periodically rebuild
an access list containing all the addresses it will accept, and on the
exposed machine a way to merge the lists from an assortment of
destination machines? 

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com




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