RE: [cobalt-users] Sendmail

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 	I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips or 
> point me to some sites
> that would have tips on blocking spam.  I don't want a spam 
> filter per say
> (we have a third party handle the filtering).  Let me explain 
> the problem.
> Right now our Raq 4 has about 500+ emails in the mail queue that are
> deferred spam to bad email addresses (at least that is what 
> it looks like),
> also we have about 225 sendmail processes running.

I don't understand why you have any email on your server for bad
addresses? Incoming mail for bad addresses would simply be rejected. Are
you sure you don't have an open relay or bad formmail.cgi that is being
used to relay spam?

> 
> 3223 Mon Oct 20 15:13 MAILER-DAEMON
> (Deferred: Connection refused by offersjust4you.com.)
> <ev06tmapqdb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Why would you have such an email in your mailq if your server isn't
trying to send it?

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C2003 Dan Kriwitsky

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