On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:40:35PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote:
> Hi. I'm generating emails through PHP scripts. Recently I sent a single
> personalised message to 15 private list members. They each received 500-800
> identical copies over a 4 to 5 hour period in 3 or 4 batches.
>
> Could anyone help me solve this? I suspect human intervention as the
> previous day an email-related database received 3 identical records
> containing the words, MORONS, LOOSERS (spelling!) and ANOTHER_SCHEME,
> together with my own email address.
>
> Yes, I had previously tested that script and later ran the same script with
> myself as each of the 15 recipients. There were no problems. The email
> headers don't show anything unusual.
>
> Any help or pointers much appreciated.
Well, lemme see...
You've given no examples of the "identical emails" so we can't help by
looking at those.
You've given no relevant log entries showing the multiple delivery
attempts to the addresses in question, so we can't help by looking at
these.
You haven't shown us the headers that "don't show anything unusual" so
we can't confirm that your guess is correct.
You've given no information about:
o your operating system
o your qmail install
o what sort of access other people have to these scripts
o what your php scripts look like
o who has access to those scripts - can a web server get at them?
Come to think of it, all you really said is "something went wrong, can
you help?". Surely you don't think that's enough information, do you?
If you do, I highly recommend that you pay someone to look into the
problem for you.
Furthermore, you've posted what appears to be a general security
problem. That your system or script has been compromised almost
certainly has nothing to do with qmail. What makes you think it's a
problem with qmail rather than say, your OS, or your PHP scripts, or
your database, or your users?
Regards.
