use Perl

• that's it?? (Score:1)

  by scrottie (4167)

  wow - must be a virgin system. After about 4 years, attempts to connect are just about soaking up the entire T1. Try running something like this just to tell these bastards to smeg off:

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  
  use IO::Handle;
  use POSIX;
  
  # process all bans for the recently passed out (10 minutes ago)
  
  my $timestamp = strftime "%b %e %H:", localtime(time() - 600); # eg, "Oct  7 02:"
  
  my $recv;
  my $count = 0;
  
  open my $spam, '<', '/var/log/maillog' or die $!;
  
  if(-s $spam > 10000*80) {
      # if longer th
  • Re:that's it?? (Score:1)

    by LTjake (4001)

    Hey!

    Thanks for the tip! I decieded to test the rbl stuff by just entering the rbls in the smtpd_client_restrictions section -- my spam has gone down 10-fold.

    If you're curious, you can see some mail stats here [alternation.net]

    Thanks again.
    • Re:that's it?? (Score:1)

      by scrottie (4167)

      That's *almost* it. A should mention a few other things - that's an intelligent choice of RBLs. Those collectively look for open proxies, dial-up/DSL/cable lines at major ISPs, and known spammers. However, sooner or later, you're going to stumble on something blacklisted that you actually want mail from - my machine, slowass.net, has been blacklisted forever on SPEWS because someone once did something bad on the netblock years ago so the netblock is considered "spammer owned". If you're running a mail gatew