I have a CentOS server with postfix running. A pop user's account was
compromised and a lot of spam started being sent. My upstream ISP's
mail program started refusing to talk to me because of the very high
rate of mail, error 451. I disabled the compromised account. I then
changed the postfix settings to deliver mail directly and flushed the
mail queue. This resulted in spam being sent out.
There were about 20K mails in the queue. I don't know how I might have
handled this better, I would have preferred to not send the spam, but
the volume was large and the labour of sorting out spam from legit
email was prohibitive.
Advice? A better list for this issue perhaps?
Dave
--
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Krishnamurti
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