Re: lots of invalid email trying to come in

2007-10-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Rick Pasotto wrote: >> >> Welcome to the Internet. You can't stop them from trying to get in >> (except by taking the machine off-line). You can only keep them >> from getting in. > > Exim was doing a very good job of keeping them from getting in. The > reason I posted was the fact of all the *

Re: lots of invalid email trying to come in

2007-10-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 07 October 2007 21:50, Raquel wrote: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:38:59 -0400 > > Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 07:36:40AM -0700, Raquel wrote: > > > On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:14:44 -0400 > > > > > > Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Suddenly I'm

Re: lots of invalid email trying to come in

2007-10-07 Thread Raquel
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:38:59 -0400 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 07:36:40AM -0700, Raquel wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:14:44 -0400 > > Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Suddenly I'm getting lots of email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > where 'some

Re: lots of invalid email trying to come in

2007-10-07 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 07:36:40AM -0700, Raquel wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:14:44 -0400 > Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Suddenly I'm getting lots of email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > where 'someuser' can be most anything. They're coming from > > different ips, some of which have n

Re: lots of invalid email trying to come in

2007-10-07 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:09:41AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > It's time to join the procmail email list. You're being attacked by spam. > If you had spamassassin properly installed you could save all of the > invalid email to a probably-spam folder and use it to train your spam > filter sa-l

Re: lots of invalid email trying to come in

2007-10-07 Thread Raquel
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:14:44 -0400 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suddenly I'm getting lots of email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > where 'someuser' can be most anything. They're coming from > different ips, some of which have no host name. ('mywebsite' is > not the real name.) > > What's going

Re: lots of invalid email trying to come in

2007-10-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's time to join the procmail email list. You're being attacked by spam. If you had spamassassin properly installed you could save all of the invalid email to a probably-spam folder and use it to train your spam filter sa-learn --spam would do that but before I did that, I'd run sa-learn --ha

lots of invalid email trying to come in

2007-10-06 Thread Rick Pasotto
Suddenly I'm getting lots of email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where 'someuser' can be most anything. They're coming from different ips, some of which have no host name. ('mywebsite' is not the real name.) What's going on? How can I stop it? Here's some lines from my logfile: 2007-10-06 20:10:32 H=smtp