[mdlug] Anyone familiar with Qmail. I need some help.

[Ein Bielaczyc]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Jim <jbroughton at twmi.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Jim wrote:
>  > I run a Qmail server using netqmail-1.05. This server has been running
>  > along fine until
>  > about the last 3 months. Now I find myself in a never ending pit of
>  > spam. I have firewalled off about 10 different
>  > countries in there entirety. I have throttled NEW email connections to
>  > about 3 per minute per IP address
>  > via the firewall. I use spamdyke to handle the RBL DNS block lists as
>  > well as local blocklists.  For some reason
>  > and I am not sure why I am still getting a gazillion bounces.  What is
>  > weird  is  is that  these  bounces are not
>  > even targeted at my  domain. I call them bounce spam. I have been over
>  > my qmail configs files till I cannot stand looking
>  > at them. For some reason my system is not rejecting these emails but is
>  > instead feeding them into the bounce facility.
>  > It's driving me nuts as it pretty much hangs up outgoing mail while
>  > qmail-remote trys to send out the bounces. Sometimes thousands at a time
>  > are hung up in the queue not to mention the thousands of double bounces
>  > that are in my mailbox as well. I can delete the messages in the queue
>  > but this wipes out legitimate outgoing email as well.
>  > Has anyone seen this problem or have experience with it? I'm baffled.
>  >
>  Oh yes and I have made sure that the system is NOT an OPEN relay.
>
>
>
>  Jim B.

I have some experience with Qmail. I've run with Qmail-Toaster for
sometime. Though I've never used SpamDyke I have seriously considered
it as the Toaster doesn't yet have GreyListing support.

But I think more information is necessary. Can you send copies of your
tcp.smtp rules, and excerpts from the appropriate logs showing message
processing.

It doesn't make much sense that Qmail would accept a message for a
domain it shouldn't. At least that's not a situation I've ever
experienced.


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Ein Bielaczyc <ebielaczyc at gmail.com>

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