General Questions

Is there a way to do that?  I went to check my email and my mail server said it was too busy, I checked it and there were tons of connections hitting it over and over.  I blocked the originator, but I was hoping maybe there is a way to get m0n0 to automatically do that if someone hammers me.

Thanks!

Automatically no.

I've had my share of spammers, but I have yet to see an bot army attack my e-mail services. You are certain that someone is using a bot-net to attack your e-mail server?

The best you can do is setup block rules in the firewall. Remember that no one has an infinite supply of machines and that you can have m0n0wall block entire C class range with a simple statement if need be. M0n0wall can even block connections in stealth mode so that basically it ignores the traffic, doesn't even tell the attacker that it was "rejected", it just drops it completely bringing calm back to your Internet connection.