On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Bob Crandell wrote:
> I have a client with a problem similar to this but we think he is being spoofed.
> How does one stop this? He isn't running an MTA.
Would be interesting to see if your client is 'black listed'
http://ORDB.org/lookup/
or http://www.abuse.net/relay.html
I used a perl script to test the site accused of spamming from another
domain.
The script comes with documentation and can be searched/downloaded as
'rlytest' -- though I am not sure if that's the latest&greatest, but
it worked for me a couple of months ago ............ Horst
((and yes, we were black listed))
>
> Larry Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*:
> >
> >> From: Tom Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:14:54 -0700 (PDT)
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: spamming
> >>
> >>
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> >> my server is being used to spam. What can I do to stop this from
> >> happening? I am fairly new to linux. Thanks for the help
> >
> >If your mail server is set up as an open relay (so that anyone can connect
> >to it and send mail) you need to close this fast; take the machine in
> >question off the network before reconfiguring it.
> >
> >Now; we'll need to know what MTA you are using as there are some fairly
> >idiosyncratic mail configuration formats out there.
> >likely ones would be sendmail,qmail,exim,postfix, etc.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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