From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 19:53:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CBB14E80 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 19:53:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heiphetz@cvzoom.net) Received: from night_flight (lc150.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.150]) by ns.cvzoom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA00939 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 22:38:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990511225300.0094e7a0@cvzoom.net> X-Sender: heiphetz@cvzoom.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:53:00 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Alex Heiphetz Subject: anti-mailbomb Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good evening I just lived through attempted mailbomb attack. "Attempted" means I was lucky to be working at the computer when it started, so I promptly killed sendmail, studied headers of the "message", called provider and the guy helped me out by cleaning que on his server that was waiting to go out to mine. I restarted sendmail and everything is fine. So, I lucked out this time. BUT... I might not be THAT lucky next time around. What are the strategies smart and experienced people use to avoid/minimise harm of little sucker playing God? Thanks in advance, A.Heiphetz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message