For the past couple of days, my server has been receiving tons of email. On Saturday, when I did a top, the load average over 900! Even now, it's hovering at 50, 50, 50. Normally, it's under 1 since my sites don't get that much traffic.
Looking through my ps list, there is a ton of qmail-smtpd, /var/qmail/bin/relaylock, tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/relaylock processes running. Under /var/log, my maillog is size 0. In /var/log/messages, I do see this line:
Deactivating service smtp due to excessive incoming connections. Restarting in 30 seconds.
Anyway, what can I do to stop this? Thanks.



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