Re: [exim] Bulk Outbound Performance

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Subject: Re: [exim] Bulk Outbound Performance
On 05/09/12 11:16, Cyborg wrote:

> I had several hacks where the attackers exploited a wordpress
> (etc.) , installed theire own spamming software, and used it to
> flood the world with unwanted mailspam.


FWIW, in a previous role we had a shared web hosting system where this
happened occasionally, so I used iptables to block users from making
outgoing connections on port 25 and then added per-uid rate limits to
the local Exim installation. Each website ran under its own uid.
Solved the problem entirely, with very little work.

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