The e-mails weren't hitting our inboxes, they were filling our "problem" queues, because they were being rejected. The business we are in requires us to inspect rejected e-mail as well.
I did end up blocking those domains at our firewall to solve the problem, and it was quite easy, thank you!:-)
Actually we weren't even on the banned list, I was just asking that they stop probing - all the probes were coming from orbs.org and manawatu.nz or some such thing.
When I e-mailed them their reply was "Fix your fucking SMTP" ....which according to their own database wasn't even broken....
Spam has never been a huge problem for us, in fact these probes were the worst spam we ever encountered.
I for one am happy to see this happen and I hope the rest of them all shut down or get shut down also.
The sheer volume of mail that we received as "probes" to test for relays which we have NEVER supported, is SPAM in itself, in my opinion.
Worst of all, I sent repeated requests to people like orbs.org asking to be excluded and they replied with very rude e-mails which contained vulgarities, etc. Real professional guys - glad to see another one bite the dust...
My problem with it is simply that I bought version 5.0 and it was terribly, terribly broken. The worst part is that the things that were broken were simple things that simply COULDN'T have been un-noticed in any installation, I paid a fair chunk for the boxed package, and got burned the same way I get burned when I by M$ products - broken releases, then megabyte after megabyte of patches are released later. I did an rpm upgrade to 5.1, applied all kinds of patches, and lots of things were STILL broken. I dropped it then, switched to Debian, and found my box to be at least 3 times faster, and had no problems. I have since switched to SuSe, and its the same deal - the box is WAY faster than RH was, and there are no stupid bugs. M$ Linux? Hey, I wasn't the first to say it . . . .
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The e-mails weren't hitting our inboxes, they were filling our "problem" queues, because they were being rejected. The business we are in requires us to inspect rejected e-mail as well.
:-)
I did end up blocking those domains at our firewall to solve the problem, and it was quite easy, thank you!
Actually we weren't even on the banned list, I was just asking that they stop probing - all the probes were coming from orbs.org and manawatu.nz or some such thing.
When I e-mailed them their reply was
"Fix your fucking SMTP"
....which according to their own database wasn't even broken....
Spam has never been a huge problem for us, in fact these probes were the worst spam we ever encountered.
I for one am happy to see this happen and I hope the rest of them all shut down or get shut down also.
The sheer volume of mail that we received as "probes" to test for relays which we have NEVER supported, is SPAM in itself, in my opinion.
Worst of all, I sent repeated requests to people like orbs.org asking to be excluded and they replied with very rude e-mails which contained vulgarities, etc. Real professional guys - glad to see another one bite the dust...
My problem with it is simply that I bought version 5.0 and it was terribly, terribly broken. The worst part is that the things that were broken were simple things that simply COULDN'T have been un-noticed in any installation, I paid a fair chunk for the boxed package, and got burned the same way I get burned when I by M$ products - broken releases, then megabyte after megabyte of patches are released later. I did an rpm upgrade to 5.1, applied all kinds of patches, and lots of things were STILL broken. I dropped it then, switched to Debian, and found my box to be at least 3 times faster, and had no problems. I have since switched to SuSe, and its the same deal - the box is WAY faster than RH was, and there are no stupid bugs. M$ Linux? Hey, I wasn't the first to say it . . . .