Author: Nico Erfurth Date: To: k9register, Exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] some assistance please. mail hitting my server 1,000 to
4,000 emails in seconds.
k9register wrote:
Please reply to the whole list, not personally to me.
> Nico
>
> No I am not sure if its coming from outside or inside, but I have nearly
> rm formmail from the whole machine, its running on a couple of accounts,
> some of them run formmail.php is that ok?
The logentries will show it.
> Thankyou for your valuable feedback I am most appreciative,
>
> Enable queue_only mode for now, and disable the queue-runner.?
>
> #Is this deliver_queue_load_max = 5 ?????
add queue_only = true in your exim-config, stop exim and start it with
exim -bd, be sure that no cronscript starts exims queuerunner (debian
does does).
> And what will this do? Will it stop my emails going out?
It will spool all mails, and stop deliveries.
You can also enable queue_smtp_domains to stop delivery to outside domains.
> I will post some logs soon.
