Hi Marc,
Well I am going to need some help from the James email server gurus. My James 2.3.1 server, running under SuSE Linux 11.0, has definitely been compromised and I need to get it fixed asap.
Well, I'm no guru but I can tell you that, in all probability, your server has not been compromised - in the sense that someone has broken in and is merrily sending stuff in your name.
A big problem with the standard SMTP protocol is that it is too trusting. If you talk to a server and tell it the following message is from Father Christmas then it believes you! It is very common for spam to simply lie about the 'from' and 'reply-to' fields.
James has a number of techniques for reducing spam and trawling the mail archive will confirm that. The trouble is there is no one technique which will prevent all spam in a single go. As I have mentioned before on this list I am a big fan of Bayesian Analysis. This single bit of code on my James server only lets through about 5 spams a day out of a total of 650! Your mileage may vary.
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