BLU server mail down since Sunday

[John Abreau]

The BLU server suffered what appears to be a massive spam attack
through a botnet hat appears to be mainly in Germany. Mail wasn't
moving at all, and this morning (Monday, Feb 11) I shut off port 25 and
deleted large sets of spam from the mail queue, and now we're waiting
for the mail queue to drain to a reasonably small size before turning
port 25 back on. 

Odds are this message will also take a long time to go through. 



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John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
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