[ale] Earthlink vs. Send Mail

[Mike Murphy]

I still relay all of my outgoing mail through speedfactory's outbound 
mail server, just 'cuz if I were running an ISP, that's what I'd want to 
more easily control botted windows spam factories.

BTW: My home server has been absolutely clubbed twice lately by an 
unknown number of spam bots that don't seem to understand mandatory TLS 
authentication. They try to relay through me, get challenged to 
authenticate, the connection closes, and then they try again. This 
results in upwards of 100 connections a *second*. Stopping sendmail for 
about 5 minutes seems to convince whatever it is to go bother someone else.

Unfortunately, the sheer number connections seem to confuse my cheapo 
little linksys nat firewall appliance, and the last time, the maillog 
filled up so fast it filled up my /var partition (resulting in a wifely 
"why can't I send email" call from home that day).

Anyone else seen this phenomena? Possible solutions I've considered are 
firing up whatever the default firewall is that comes with FC2, or 
buying a linksys WRT54G and throwing alternate firmware on it (neither 
of which I'm hugely keen on, since its a PITA that will take away from 
Call of Duty time).

Mike


Jerald Sheets wrote:
> Yep.  Ditto that.
> 
> Speedfactory has been one of the best ISP's I've ever had.
> 
> A friend of mne and I have always said "Gimme some IP's, some bandwidth, and
> leave me the hell alone" and Speedfactory does just that.  I can do whatever
> I wish, as long as I'm not breaking the law, and that's just right for me.
> 
> 
> Jerald M. Sheets jr.
> Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
> (404) 293-8762
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Nathan
> J. Underwood
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:31 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Earthlink vs. Send Mail
> 
> For the record, I love Speedfactory.  I *have* had some problems (see the
> previous post about the mysterious dropped connection on Fridays thing, but
> it's since stopped happening).
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> Nathan J. Underwood
> Cyber Tech Cafe' <><
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> 
> Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> 
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>>On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:10 pm, Oysgelt, Moisey G [IBM 
>>Contractor for Sprint] wrote:
>>| Is there a way to configure Send Mail to accept my credentials and 
>>| use it as my local mail server?
>>
>>To the best of my knowledge, Earthlink only permits PPoE connections 
>>and does not allow you to use your own box as a mail server.
>>And don't waste your time with their "technical" support. That call 
>>center is now located outside Manilla and those folks don't know a pop 
>>mail server from a lollipop.
>>I believe both Speakeasy and Speedfactory are willing to sell you a 
>>static IP address, and do not block port 25. They are charging a buck 
>>or two more than Earthlink does for PPPoE.
>>
>>Sean
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