Re: [exim] re spamming

that means if somebody is sending millions of email to a non exitant
email id then there will be increase in overall bandwidth but no log

On 11/22/06, Ian FREISLICH <if@???> wrote:
> 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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