qmail spammer clean up. senderbase problems, relaying and more

by: WanderingTechy March 10, 2011

One of the clients on a server I manage used a very weak password on two mail accounts and both of these had been exploited by spammers. Now putting aside the new systems that will have to be implemented to prevent this in future we had the job of cleaning up.  After clearing the mail [...]

Blocking emails by senders IP in Plesk

by: WanderingTechy September 3, 2009

I have been using greylisting successfully for some time now, however over the last few days a few have been getting through.  I am currently testing nolisting on one of my domains but in the meantime I noticed that out of the 10 spam that got through in the last week 8 were from a [...]

How to clear the qmail queue

by: WanderingTechy September 2, 2009

I recently needed to clear down a qmail queue.  There were no valid emails on the server but the queue was full of failed spam (blocked) This script clears the queue.