It's absolute murder on my poor hard drives trying to clean off all that 
chaff... Found a "find" script that is holding the fastest file per second 
delete rate.. Still looking at more than a day to dump it all. :-/ thinking if 
I drop to a rescue DVD to quiet the other use it might finish in a day ;-)

Nick Ellson - from iPhone (forgive typos)
CCIE #20018
Network Hobbyist
"Educating Layer 8, one user at a time."

On Aug 20, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-cour...@fmp.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 13:59 -0700, Nick Ellson wrote:
>> It appears that the main issue was that my account credentials were
>> compromised for a 1 month period, which loaded my system up with so
>> much spam things would not function. This made the rest of it look
>> very bad.
> 
> I had this happen a while ago.  I'm using a MySQL db for courier
> authentication and had a clause in MYSQL_SELECT_CLAUSE written to deny
> relaying for everyone unless they had a flag set in the db AND could
> authenticate.  Unfortunately, I hadn't updated MYSQL_SELECT_CLAUSE which
> had been copied from a previous courier installation on another server
> which didn't look at my auth flag.  The result was that one of my
> customers got her computer infected with a key-logger and her IMAP
> credentials were used to pwn my SMTP server and send out huge quantities
> of spam!  My server got blacklisted!
> 
> Fortunately, courier logs the user IDs for authenticated SMTP access,
> and places the same information in the Received header added by the SMTP
> server.
> 
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