Mystery Spam Piling Up in Mqueue

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

"Jason C. Wells" <jcw at highperformance.net> writes:

> I have a bunch of mail piling up in /var/spool/mqueue.  It appears to be
> all spam and it appears to be generated on the localhost.  I am not
> sending it.  

Like Jeff said, this looks very much like bounces generated by spam
which was sent with a forged, undeliverable sender address (big
surprise, huh?). 

Pileups like these will happen every once in a while, and there's
really not too much you can do apart from putting some effort into
making sure your systems stay clean.  With a bit of care it is
possible to remove messages from your delivery queue, but unless disk
space is really tight or the messages are just too d**n annoying, you
can just leave them there to automagically go away after a few days.

As for "giving spammers a hard time", you could for entertainment (and
possibly some information value) try putting that exact string into
your favorite search engine.

Cheers,
-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
"First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.