Re: [Exim] exim autodetecting misuse?

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Autor: Nigel Metheringham
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A: P.A.Osborne
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] exim autodetecting misuse?
P.A.Osborne@??? said:
> I am wondering whether (I have had a look at the FAQ - and failed)
> exim will help do the following:


> + spot when a local user is sending large quantities of email to
>     multiple addresses (ie bulk spamming) 


> + spot when a user is (or is being) mailbombed (recently we had a user
>        mailbomb an address that diverted to a mobile phone - around
>      50,000 messages - I suspect the phone is still ringing :-)      


I have done this using a perl script to tail the log and process the
results accordingly. That works pretty well in conjunction with a
filter (dump the results into a db of some sort and check against that
in the filter.).

    Nigel.
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