Re: figuring out who sent email by squirrelmail

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> In trying to track down what account was being used to send spam
> via squirrelmail all I had was lines like this from /var/log/maillog
>
> Feb 27 18:12:15 mail sendmail[9844]: p1RNC9TS009844:
> from=<johngalvan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, size=1087, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<4469.120.140.74.254.1298645519.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
> Feb 27 18:12:15 mail sendmail[9844]: p1RNC9TS009844:
> to=<xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx>, delay=00:00:06, mailer=relay, pri=31087,
> stat=queued
>
> johngalvan is not a user on our system.  SO it was faked.  Is there now
> way
> from the msgid to figure out what logged in squirrelmail user sent this?
>
> Eventually I was able to get an example of an actual spam message so I
> could
> see the full headers which shows the authorized squirrelmail user, but
> that
> took a long time to track down and meanwhile spam was still going out.
>
> Is there some plugin that would log information for auditing this kind
> of thing better?  I was supprised to find there is no log at all for
> squirrelmail by default that tracks logins or mail sent.  Can anyone
> recommend one?

I use Squirrel Logger:

http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=52

I have mine logging to a PostgreSQL database, and I hacked on the
show_stats.php file a bit to present the data in the way I like.

Benny


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