On 09/08/11 05:33, Dave Stevens wrote:
> 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?
>
man postsuper gives solutions to deleting the queued spam rather than
dumping the problem onto the rest of the Internet.
Why didn't you ask for advice _before_ spewing another 20K spam onto the
rest of us?
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