Brendan Grossman wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:33:00 +1100, "Ted Cooper"
> <eximX1211@???> said:
>> What error messages are you getting?
>
> I think actually it was an open relay for a few days as it was trusting
> a server in front of it that was NAT'ing to it, so anything received at
> this server would have been accepted...eek.
>
> A lot are just spam I'd say and so a lot are dictionary attacks (so
> they're bouncing as most aliases don't exist at the destinations).
>
> I've tried a queue run to deliver local mail but the queue isn't getting
> down at all...the server's queueing more than it's sending...
>
> Any ideas to get the local mail delivered faster or maybe it might be
> faster to delete all frozen mail first that is not local?
Well if you queues are full of spam, I'd suggest going through them and
deleting the obvious ones. You should be able to grep common markers to
sort the out. common IP's, mailer headers, urls. It would be far better
to remove them from the world than to let them play out.
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