From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 12:06:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B843116A4CE for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:06:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ex-nihilo-llc.com (ex-nihilo-llc.com [206.114.147.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76AC343D1D for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:06:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aaron@alpete.com) Received: from mail.alpete.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ex-nihilo-llc.com (Postfix) with SMTP id E898199; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:08:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from 162.114.211.143 (proxying for 172.26.45.231) (SquirrelMail authenticated user aaron@alpete.com) by mail.alpete.com with HTTP; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:08:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <6731.162.114.211.143.1077134894.squirrel@mail.alpete.com> In-Reply-To: <45614.207.43.195.204.1077067743.squirrel@www.themango.org> References: <45614.207.43.195.204.1077067743.squirrel@www.themango.org> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:08:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Aaron Peterson" To: luke@themango.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My fault or just Spam X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: aaron@alpete.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:06:07 -0000 unfortunately, it's likely it's your fault for using email, hehe... at least one of the recent windows viruses steals addresses from the address books of infected machines and sends out mail to/from those addresses. It's likely that someone that had your address in their address book was infected and your email address got abused as a result. i have definitely felt the pain of that over the last month, as i'm sure many others have. i can't even avoid the pain of using windows by not using windows anymore. i have to convince everyone i know not to use windows :) aaron > I've fairly recently setup a mail server to: > > 1) learn about email and server configurations and all that goes along > with administrating it. > > 2) And being able to recieve loads of email from freebsd-questions without > fear of restriction on any other account (i.e. loss of email that I want > to save). > > Anyhow, within the month that I've had my server running I've been > recieving numerous emails that are obviously malicious to Windows users > (i.e. contain an attachment with some random-letters.exe and nonsense > about a patch). In short my concern is not that me or my wife will run > this, sense we don't use Windows, but whether these emails are just spam > or if it is my fault. > > If said emails are just spam, fine. Not to say that I like spam but it > gives me a reason to learn how to setup a spam filter and/or tarpit. The > reason I worry that it's not just spam is that there are only 2 accounts, > mine and my wifes, and she doesn't use her's except to email me and I've > only used mine to setup freebsd-questions and email her. So why would I be > getting spam? So then I think maybe it's my fault. > > What I mean by my fault is, is my machine being used to relay spam and > then I am getting bounces from the poor people recieve this crap? I really > would hate for this to be the case. Even if said emails are not my fault > how do I assure that I am not relaying spam unbeknown to me? > > This is a sample header from one such email. Now I'm not too sure how to > take this. > > Return-Path: > Received: from mail.themango.org ([unix socket]) > by mail.themango.org (Cyrus v2.2.3) with LMTP; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 > 16:06:23 -0600 > X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 > Received: from centennialrd.net (unknown [196.32.150.6]) > by themango.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2194450F2 > for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:06:21 -0600 (CST) > Received: from qexstrg (jp [196.32.129.120]) > by centennialrd.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i1HLwZHp022746; > Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:58:36 -0400 > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:58:35 -0400 > Message-Id: <200402172158.i1HLwZHp022746@centennialrd.net> > From: "Technical Bulletin" > To: "MS User" > SUBJECT: Newest Microsoft Patch > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="bicnhrvs" > > My configuration is FreeBSD 5.2.1, Postfix + Cyrus > > Thanks for any help, > > Luke > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >