Now I know why I love this list!!
Let me catagorize the replies:
-Suggestions to upgrade to sendmail 8.9+ or to add a rule in Sendmail
(i would but i'm on a marked system and administrative types won't
let me upgrade anything! that's why i'm running v5.65)
-Apply TCP wrappers and run w/smtp (i think i'll try this later)
-Block the address at the interface using ifaccess.conf
(i tried this but the external address never resolved because
of our firewall and external router.)
- A perl script to scrub the trash messages from the mailbox.
(the script worked great but i would have had to run it continuously
to keep up with the trash!)
-Install procmail and filter the messages. (This is what I did and it
worked great!)
But my supervisor (an MS *%#_at_!) decided he wanted the user's
mail forwarded to an NT/2000 for scrubbing instead.
Thanx to everyone,
Paul,Serguei,John,Steve,Ian,Tom,James,Jay,Derk,MM,Phil
>On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John F. Marten Systems Admin. wrote:
> one of my users is getting slammed with repeated emails an hour.
> email to the postmaster of the originating site has been unsuccessful.
> i'ld like to do a port 25 block for just that site but don't know
> how. either that or an snmp(d) block. yes, i checked the archives but
> no answer to my specific problem. i could just create a new account
> for the user and trash the old mailbox, but she's on the top of the
> food chain here, so i'ld rather not. running DU4.0D and sendmail
> 5.65v4.0 tia-
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Received on Thu Aug 02 2001 - 18:25:02 NZST