OK so everyone knows that keeps writing me and telling me that "haven't you
checked your logs"
This is what the ONLY mail log on the server looks like.
Aug 28 11:37:19 rask qmail: 999013039.870593 starting delivery 38571: msg
1879468 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aug 28 11:37:19 rask qmail: 999013039.870801 status: local 0/120 remote 48/50
Aug 28 11:37:21 rask qmail: 999013041.851143 delivery 38571: success:
64.4.42.7_accepted_message./Remote_host_said:_250_Requested_mail_action_okay,_completed/
Aug 28 11:37:21 rask qmail: 999013041.851649 status: local 0/120 remote 49/50
Aug 28 11:37:21 rask qmail: 999013041.853248 end msg 1879468
That is what it says when this issue of spam is going out....
now if you (from that) can tell me where to look you will have one
very intent listener... SO YOU KNOW... this is the ONLY log file
on my server.
At 08:09 AM 9/14/2001, you wrote:
>Ian LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Someone is generating spam on my server and sending out from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >the mail box [EMAIL PROTECTED] DOES NOT exist but the server sends it out
> >anyways..
> >
> >I am talking MILLIONS of emails... I can not track where they are
> >generating the mail
> >from but it is now causing us a lot of trouble as ISPs are starting to
> >block our server
> >and I in the meantime get hundred thousand bounce messages.
>
>How can you not know which local user is responsible? Surely you've
>looked at your logs...
>
> >We are actually now considering changing MTAs because there seems to be no
> >fix for what is going on and we see that as a problem.
>
>I'd be suprised if there was a usable MTA that could prevent a local
>user from sending spam.
>
>-Dave
-
Regards,
Ian LeBlanc
System Administrator /
Software Development
Rask, Inc. - www.rask.com
Phone: (727) 517-2000
Fax: (727) 517-2001
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