Hi,

I'm trying to figure out what's going on, all I know is that my courier is
being flooded by spammers. As far as I know I have relaying denied, I even
tried relaying from the outside and I got the proper Relaying denied
error.

However, my server is definitely being hijacked and I've had to block a
bunch of IPs.

I don't understand how this is happening. I see the courieresmtp session
being started, and I see that the esmtp module is being used to relay
messages, and I'm not seeing the relay denied.

I'm using the default Courier from Ubuntu 8.0.4, the version reported is
Courier 0.58.0.20080127

I have in smtpaccess/default:

127.0.0.1       allow,RELAYCLIENT

# Also, enable relaying for 10.0.0.0/8 and 192.168.0.0/16

10      allow,RELAYCLIENT
192.168 allow,RELAYCLIENT

My mailq has over 91,000 messages from just one spammer, I've pasted one
such session below. At the moment I've resorted to blocking (deny in
smtpaccess) a number of IPs, but I need to understand how the spammers are
getting around the relay restrictions...

I see an external connection starting, and a message being setup to go to
the outside, so this is definitely a relay.

May 16 00:46:14 321 courieresmtpd: started,ip=[::ffff:72.44.77.211]
May 16 00:46:14 321 courierd: Waiting.  shutdown time=none, wakeup
time=Sat May 16 00:50:58 2009, queuedelivering=329, inprogress=40
May 16 00:46:17 321 courierd:
newmsg,id=0000000000024712.000000004A0E6F48.000044CA: dns; ThankGod
([::ffff:72.44.77.211])
May 16 00:46:38 321 courierd:
started,id=0000000000024712.000000004A0E6F48.000044CA,from=<[email protected]>,module=esmtp,host=yahoo.com,addr=<[email protected]>
May 16 00:46:39 321 courieresmtp:
id=0000000000024712.000000004A0E6F48.000044CA,from=<[email protected]>,addr=<[email protected]>:
250 ok dirdel
May 16 00:46:39 321 courieresmtp:
id=0000000000024712.000000004A0E6F48.000044CA,from=<[email protected]>,addr=<[email protected]>,size=1848,success:
delivered: c.mx.mail.yahoo.com [216.39.53.2]
May 16 00:46:39 321 courieresmtp:
id=0000000000024712.000000004A0E6F48.000044CA,from=<[email protected]>,addr=<[email protected]>,size=1848,status:
success
May 16 00:46:39 321 courierd:
completed,id=0000000000024712.000000004A0E6F48.000044CA

Please help, it's driving me nuts... :-(

Thanks
Ricardo


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