Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers

Thu Feb 3 14:50:34 UTC 2005



up at 3.am wrote:

>On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
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>Easier said than done, especially if you're a small ISP that's been doing
>POP before SMTP and changing this requires that every customer's settings
>be changed.
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drac  http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/
supports seperate pop/smtp servers. Which is not neccessarily what is 
being recommended by having seperate in-mx-smtp and out-smtp.

>Is there any info on how this zombie is spread?  ie, email worms, direct
>port attacks, etc.  If the former, there's hope of nipping it in the bud
>with anti-virus filtering.
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>James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
>up at 3.am							    http://3.am
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