Dealing with bulk mailers and spammers

[netmotiv8]

Hi,

Some advise please.

Recently we seem to have attracted some customers who are signing up for a cheapest accounts and using there accounts for spamming / bulk mailing. Whilst we get to know about the activity early on and suspend the accounts we would like to know if there is a way of knowing even sooner if a certain number of emails from a single account in DA exceeds a given number within a given time span.

Is there a way of running something automatically to suspend an account if a level of activity hits a certain threshold.




Neil

 

[Icheb]

Don't know, but what you could do is write a script that parses some of the exim logs.
eg. catch the part where exim reports localhost to be sending, scan for the domain name and start counting per domain.
If it gets above x, send the server admin an e-mail about it or something.
I thought suspending is also possible with the DA API, although you shouldn't ask me how