[vox-tech] Spammers using my server

Ehrhart, Jay ehrhart at ycoe.org
Fri Sep 24 07:50:13 PDT 2004


This morning I had over 7000 emails in my Linux server's outbound queue
which I deleted.  My firewall log shows over 20,000 emails went out with
a
SunTrust bank announce saying to login and enter your username and
password.
I do not see the emails coming in like I would in a relay.  How can I
stop
this or how are they doing this?

My firewall using a SMTP proxy and only allows my domain in.  I run
MailScanner on my Red Hat 3.0 mail server with Sendmail.  The box has
the
lastest patches from Red Hat.  I have Sendmail setup to accept only my
domain email.

The non-deliverable reports are coming from my Linux apache user.
Non-deliverables usually come from root.  I am running apache on the
server
with forms.  The forms software is the latest version and patches.

Can anybody help on this?

Thanks,
Jay

Jay Ehrhart



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