[77706] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Thu Feb 3 09:55:38 2005
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:50:34 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: up@3.am
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0502030922380.71791-100000@richard2.pil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
up@3.am wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
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>Easier said than done, especially if you're a small ISP that's been doing
>POP before SMTP and changing this requires that every customer's settings
>be changed.
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drac http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/
supports seperate pop/smtp servers. Which is not neccessarily what is
being recommended by having seperate in-mx-smtp and out-smtp.
>Is there any info on how this zombie is spread? ie, email worms, direct
>port attacks, etc. If the former, there's hope of nipping it in the bud
>with anti-virus filtering.
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>James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
>up@3.am http://3.am
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