Thank you very much for this advice and my apologies for using the wrong
message subject.

I am investigating your suggestions and we are installing a new
antivirus program this afternoon. I must say I was good with this sort
of thing in my day but do not have the latest playbook to deal with
these issues. Nevertheless I am doing my best to figure out what's going
on. I suspect the problems are quite solvable to someone who is up on
current email issues.

I have hosted the latest log file off our Web site--hoping you or
someone can have a look and offer a bit more advice. In the mean time I
am following your suggestions and will continue to explore myself.

Log file:
www.drivearoundtheworld.com/imail/log0206.txt 


Here is my take:

1. I suspect the built-in account that Imail uses to handle list
subscribes has been compromised. How this is possible I do not know. 

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

I am seeing many messages sent to this 'user' and many attempts by this
'user' to send mail. 


2. Also, we have three email lists and I see many attempts by list
owners to send mail. Perhaps these accounts have been compromised. If so
how can their passwords be changed? I could disable the lists until the
problem is sorted but I cannot disable the built in Imail account.


3. Since we are running 8.15 perhaps we are running into the CBL list
vs. Imail issue that I have been reading about. Apparently CBL
blacklists Imail servers due to the way virtual domains issue their HELO
answer.

Many many thanks,

Nick Baggarly
Drive Around the World
www.drivearoundtheworld.com 
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford
Whiteman
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:11 AM
To: Nick Baggarly
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail vulnerability, or do we have a Virus

> Hi. I would kindly appreciate some help diagnosing a problem that's
been
> going on for some time now. We have version 8.15 of Imail Server and
> having problems delivering some mail messages. We are seeing many
> messages in the log like these:

First  off,  I  have  to say this: if you want the fastest help, don't
hijack threads with other topics!

But, anyway... there isn't much "diagnosis" that you need to do -- the
logs  have  done  the diagnosis for you. Your IP 209.237.50.61 is on a
number of significant blacklists:

     http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=209.237.50.61

All  of  the  blacklists mention that you spam has been sent from that
server recently and repeatedly.

Who's  doing  it? Scan your logs for users sending aberrant numbers of
messages. Check off-hours logins that may point to hijacked accounts /
find non-matching authenticated user + subsequent MAIL FROM / any MAIL
FROMs from non-local domains.

--Sandy


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Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
Broadleaf Systems, a division of
Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
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