Dedicated Server SpamBot Attack

Just had a period of time where SpamBots were trying to send large amounts of spam to my dedicated webserver. I would often have well over 100 SMTP connections to my server, but checking the spool and the log files can see that they didn’t get very far and my Spam filtering systems blocked them from even sending the messages.

As of today they’ve given up on my email servers IP address and we’re back down to normal traffic.

It did give me the opportunity to refresh some of my SPAM filtering configuration and have tightened things even further.