Re: [Exim] some assistance please. mail hitting my server 1,…

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Author: Torsten Mueller
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To: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [Exim] some assistance please. mail hitting my server 1,000 to4,000 emails in seconds.

Nico Erfurth schrieb:
>
> k9register wrote:

...
> > My server has been hit for weeks at different times of the day with
> > 1,000 to 4,000 emails in seconds, I have checked logs and watched top -c
> > for hours and ran netstat -an and still am confused as to how these
> > emails get in.
> >

...
>
> Are you sure they come from the outside?
> Not from some script running on the machine, like formmail?

...

I agree with Nico and i bet it's the formail.cgi script
(as i had the same problem with one costumer on my machine
some months ago).

<humor>
Exim handled the mails fine so the
only thing: a good stress test
</humor>

Torsten