[plug] Spam Attack

[Travis Read]

Thats what I was afraid of, 3.5K of e-mail in two hours is a lot of e-mail
to do it by hand. From memory it was averaging 1 e-mail every 2 seconds. 

Trav


On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Martin wrote:

> $author = "Travis Read" ;
> >
> > account. How can I get sendmail to scan through the mail spool and delete
> > any e-mail sent to the address jdl02765 at mydomain.com.au?
> 
> i don't think sendmail can do this for you. you will have to eliminate those
> messages from the queue.
> 
> if you do a mailq and look for the messageIDs and then delete both the body
> and control file for each of these messages, you should be home and hosed.
> 
> if there are too many messages to do by hand, you might want to do it in
> reverse. ie identify the good messages and move them out of the way and
> delete the rest. either that, or write a script to automate it...
> 
> later
> marty
> 
> "I can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what they want
> because I'm me." - Corduroy, Pearl Jam
> 

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