[lug] Sendmail 8.12.2 & outgoing spam

Shannon Johnston sjohnston at cavion.com
Mon Jan 14 16:10:17 MST 2002


No dice.
It's not an open realy. It's got to be somebody directly connecting to
my server. Or something else. I've got ther headers from the emails and
all it says is that it's from nobody at localhost

I don't get it.

Shannon


On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 14:18, John Hernandez wrote:
> This could be caused by an open SMTP relay.  Punch you box's IP address 
> into the form at http://www.abuse.net/relay.html to test for that 
> condition.  If it's found to be open, check out 
> http://www.sendmail.org/tips/relaying.html
> 
> -John
> 
> Shannon Johnston wrote:
> 
> > HELP!!
> > My server is spamming others. I want to find the source of the problem
> > but I don't know what I'm looking for. Please help!!!
> > 
> > 
> > Shannon
> > 
> > 
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