Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 15:18:20 -0400 From: Jim Trigg <jtrigg@spamcop.net> To: Kevin Pang <kevin@vokaboly.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam Problems Message-ID: <4287A07C.4070607@spamcop.net> In-Reply-To: <004001c5596f$89139110$6402a8c0@kevin> References: <004001c5596f$89139110$6402a8c0@kevin>
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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@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@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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