[lug] Lots o' email bounces

[Ben Whaley]

Dave,

Are you using the Spamhaus SBL/XBL lists? These are helping me block up to
75% of incoming mail before spamassassin even processes it, saving loads of
CPU.

- Ben

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Dave Pitts <dpitts at cozx.com> wrote:

> Hello:
>
> It seems that we have a new scourge, I'm getting hundreds of apparent
> bounced email messages. It seems that the spammers send stuff to the
> recipient systems with a forged return address that points to my system. I
> catch most of the stuff with Spamassassin; but it chews up so much CPU it is
> almost a denial of service attack. Has anyone else seen these types of
> errors? How do we get rid of this crap? I'm running CentOS 5 using the
> default sendmail and Spamassassin.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dave Pitts             PULLMAN: Travel and sleep in safety and comfort.
> dpitts at cozx.com        My other RV IS a Pullman (Colorado Pine).
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