Re: MS mail bombs

From: daniel (daniel_at_debian-gnu.com)
Date: 09/23/03

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    Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:33:33 +0200
To: wayneg@ananzi.co.za, DebianUser list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    Wayne Gemmell wrote:
    >>>>>"Walt L. Williams" <wwilliams@intergate.com> wrote:
    >>>>>
    >>>>>>Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails
    >>>>>>that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming
    >>>>>>is increasing exponentially.
    >
    >
    > I recieved 10Mb of mail over the weekend, and I the last 12 hours I recieved
    > another 10Mb. I have a 10Mb internet based, downloadable mailbox and at this
    > rate I should recieve mail for 3 hours tomorrow before it becomes flooded!
    > Its very disturbing. I'd love to get my hands on the person responsible for
    > this!
    >
    >
    >>>>> My solution has been exim4, exiscan-acl, clamav, spamassassin and
    >>>>>liberal use of shorewall's blacklist.
    >
    >
    > I can't see any solution to this. Downloading this amount of mail during the
    > day would cost me a fortune *sniff*
    >
    >
    Maybe it sounds drastic but I even thought of making some type of acl of
    who can send me e-mail and deny the rest with a msg of "If you really
    want to Send me E-mail send a mail with the Subject "Request to send you
    e-mail", setting another e-mail account in which only subjects like
    "Request to send you e-mail" would allow me to know if somebody who
    wants to send me e-mail, and therefore I would allow their addresses is
    that is what I want...

    I know how it sounds.. but when one becomes desperate..

    Maybe this would be the future for e-mail, deny all but specified... 

    -- 
-daniel
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