[lug] Sendmail 8.12.2 & outgoing spam

[Richard Fifarek]

	nobody at localhost is typically email generated from a web server 
(such as Apache).  Got any web pages that generate email on the machine?

On 14 Jan 2002, Shannon Johnston wrote:

> 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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	     Richard H. Fifarek	       		rfifarek at silug.org
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