Re: [exim] re spamming

Chris Lear wrote:
> * Deepak Kapoor wrote (20/11/06 17:36):
> >
> > On 11/20/06, Peter Bowyer <peter@???> wrote:
> >> On 20/11/06, Deepak Kapoor <deepak.chd@???> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > i have a web hosting user which is showing overused bandwidth inhis
> >> > control panel, but whenever we analyse his mainlog for exim or
> >> > rejectlog for exim we don't see that much activity for emails from his
> >> > domain what do you thick could be the problem.
> >>
> >> Some other program than exim is using up the bandwidth?
> > hi,
> > thanx for replying to my query peter, but the control panel direct
> > admin is showing that the bandwidth is used by the email, is it
> > possible that lot email is sent to that particular domain with
> > miscellaneous id which is bounced back that is counted towards the
> > bandwidth
>
> Wouldn't that show in the exim logs?

No, for some reason exim doesn't log the size of rejected mails,
so for instance if a message is rejected after data by an ACL, there
will be no size logged in mainlog unless the administrator specifically
does something like:

log_message = This message contains malware ($malware_name) S=$message_size for $recipients

For cases where the rejection may involve significant bandwidth.

Ian

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Ian Freislich