From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 22 12:40:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pickup2-ld.pvd.loa.net (pickup.loa.com [199.171.167.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2253C37B448 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:39:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5274 invoked by uid 0); 22 Feb 2002 20:39:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pretorian) (208.130.43.221) by pickup2-ld.pvd.loa.net with SMTP; 22 Feb 2002 20:39:49 -0000 Message-ID: <019c01c1bbe1$0d614a00$37b4a8c0@pretorian> From: "Brent" To: "Remington L." , References: <000a01c1bbde$e2b74540$82038bd8@admin> Subject: Re: Very unusual behavior Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:39:40 -0500 Organization: Log On America MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0199_01C1BBB7.24715160" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0199_01C1BBB7.24715160 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable means someone tried useing your sendmail to "relay" thru this is used = alot by spammers...sendmail has bigtime exploits in the way of "open = relays" esspcially in older versions. try postfix brent ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Remington L.=20 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org=20 Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 3:24 PM Subject: Very unusual behavior Last night I did a fresh install of FBSD 4.4. I got on the net and = began CVSuping 4.5. during this I noticed an unusual sendmail = error(thingy): Feb 22 01:55:22 sendmail[948]: g1M9tMj00948: = from=3D,=20 size=3D0, class=3D0, nrcpts=3D0, proto=3DSMTP, daemon=3DMTA, = relay=3D[217.226.84.195] Feb 22 12:14:40 sendmail[159]: starting daemon (8.11.6): = SMTP+queueing@00:30:00 =20 Why the hell does this mean? Why did it do this? And how do I fix it? ------=_NextPart_000_0199_01C1BBB7.24715160 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

means someone tried useing your = sendmail to "relay"=20 thru this is used alot by spammers...sendmail has bigtime exploits in = the way of=20 "open relays"

esspcially in older = versions.

try postfix

brent

----- Original Message -----
From:=20 Remington L.=20
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.o= rg=20

Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 = 3:24=20 PM

Subject: Very unusual = behavior

Last night I did a fresh = install=20 of FBSD 4.4. I got on the net and began CVSuping=20 4.5. during this I noticed an unusual sendmail = error(thingy):

Feb 22 = 01:55:22 sendmail[948]: g1M9tMj00948: = from=3D<smtp2001soho@yahoo.com>, =

size=3D0,=20 class=3D0, nrcpts=3D0, proto=3DSMTP, = daemon=3DMTA,=20 relay=3D[217.226.84.195]

Feb 22 = 12:14:40 sendmail[159]: starting daemon = (8.11.6):=20 SMTP+queueing@00:30:00

Why the hell does this = mean? Why=20 did it do this? And how do I fix=20 it?

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