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[mike.davis]

Looks like the name server updates have finally taken affect. I'm able to
access the server from work again, so it should be available to everybody
soon if not already.

Mike


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[Mike Davis]

What a mess... I've spent the last several hours cleaning up nearly half a million emails off the server. For years I've had an address on my system of test@dcsol.com that I used when working on other email systems... it was an autoresponder. So if you sent an email to test@dcsol.com you'd get a response within a matter of seconds letting you know that both your outbound and inbound mail was working properly.

Well the spammers apparently found that address, because the system was trying to send a bunch of bounce messages to test@dcsol.com for undeliverable addresses... which caused a loop. And filled the email spool directory with hundreds of thousands of messages, adding another 300-500 new ones every second!

Anyway, I finally got it all cleaned up, and disabled the autoresponder... so hopefully this won't happen again!

Mike




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