RE: [IMail Forum] Help - I'm being attacked

[Fitscape.com Internet Relations]

lol, prepare to be spammed by this list for your relay settings! Check the
KB for help on setting your relay options...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of T. Bradley Dean
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:36 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Help - I'm being attacked
>
>
> A few postings:
> >How are your relay settings set?
> >Time to get your system ready not to relay.
> >If you're relaying ... You probably just made it on a black list
>
> I have it set to: 'Relay mail for anyone'. If I change this, will my users
> still be able to send email from their homes? I have web hosting customers
> (no dial up access) as well as employees access iMail. Some mail is sent
> from the iMail web access, some is sent internally (same network as iMail
> server), some is sent from people dialing up through another ISP, and some
> is sent from ASP pages (same server as iMail). How can I make sure none of
> this is interrupted, but at the same time make sure that spammers
> can't use
> my iMail machine for the evil spamming plans?
>
> By the way, what's a black list?
>
> Bradley Dean
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fitscape.com
> Internet Relations
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:21 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Help - I'm being attacked
>
>
> How are your relay settings set?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of T. Bradley Dean
> > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 1:42 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [IMail Forum] Help - I'm being attacked
> >
> >
> > Okay guys, this is weird!
> >
> > I have a iMail copybox email set up so I see all email going through my
> > server. I just had 44 emails sent in the span of few minutes. All
> > were sent
> > from CompuServe accounts to CompuServe accounts.
> >
> > First an email would be Subject "208.170.56.151", the body would
> > simply say
> > "test". Then an email would be Subject "208.170.56.151 Test Report", the
> > body would say "It took 1 seconds to send the test email through server
> > 208.170.56.151". It looks like this was done for all the IP
> > addresses on my
> > iMail server.
> >
> > I tried to contact the schmuck doing this, but CompuServe returned the
> > email, user unknown.
> >
> > SO here are my questions: Who, What, Where, and Why?! Here is the header
> > from one of the emails:
> >
> > Received: from gnsyi.compuserve.com [209.207.216.180] by
> mail.infodish.com
> >   (SMTPD32-5.00) id AF0012801F2; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:54:40 PST
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: 208.170.56.155 Test Report
> > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:54:41 PST
> > X-UIDL: 263256716
> > Status: U
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Bradley Dean
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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