----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Staudenmayer" <jasons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:34 AM Subject: RE: How to detect spammers? > Start by making sure your not a open relay. Then check your maillog for > outside connections sending email outside of your domain (relaying). It > would also help if we knew what MTA you have running. The maillog has entries that coincide with the suspected spam transmission times. Also, the entries include 'mailer=relay' and 'relay=[127.0.0.1]'. We do not use the RH Server for mail at all, but I did notice that 'sendmail' is enabled, so I disabled it. What else do we need to do? Thanks, Bdavis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Billy Davis [mailto:bdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:22 AM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: How to detect spammers? > > > We have reason to believe that someone on the Internet > is using our RH9 Linux server to distribute spam. Are > there any log files that we can check to verify this? > How can we prevent it? > > Thanks, > Bdavis > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
