Spam Problems

Jim Trigg jtrigg at spamcop.net
Sun May 15 12:18:35 PDT 2005


Kevin Pang wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm a newbie and manage a FreeBSD server, which only hosts my own websites,
> also only me have shell accounts on this server. Someone sent out lots of
> spams from my server today. I have stopped postfix and disabled mail command
> to make sure no any emails will be sent to from this server.
> 
> I want to know how the spammer did that. Actually I didn't manage postfix to
> work well, I even can't send emails from my desktop myself, on the server
> side, sending/receiving emails works well. I guess the spams were sent via a
> web script. The sender was specified as "www at myhost.com" according to the
> complaint email. I use phpBB, vBulletin and Awstats.
> 
> The spam email entry in the maillog is:
> May 14 14:55:03 pang postfix/smtp[46011]: EC0C595C90: to=<xxx at xxx.com>,
> relay=mail2.iecc.com[208.31.42.98], delay=724, status=sent (250 ok
> 1116100192 qp 2255)
> 
> 
> As a newbie, I have no idea where to start to fix the problem. My first
> question: Is it possible to know which script sent out these spams? I don't
> know what else to ask at the moment. I will appreciate it very much too if
> you any other suggestions about my problems. Thanks!

If you post the output of 'postconf -n' we can determine what might be 
wrong in your postfix setup; if that looks good then it's probably one 
of the addon web packages.

Jim


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