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Help - My server is being used as a spam relay right now

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by romanus, Sep 11, 2006.

  1. romanus

    romanus Well-Known Member

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    How can I find out which domain is responsible for the 3000 or so bounced emails that I got in the last 20 minutes?
     
    #1 romanus, Sep 11, 2006
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    If you are running suexec you could check the suexec_log to see what scripts ran when, you can grep it to find the specific time that the spam occurred. If you still have mail in queue, check the headers to see if you can see where it came from.

    :edit: bounced? might just be someone using your domain name as the reply to when they are sending out spam too....
     
    #2 mctDarren, Sep 11, 2006
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    noe these are in my mail que with my host name in the header
     
    #3 romanus, Sep 11, 2006
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    hi,
    there are a lot of threads which can help you catch the culprit.
    Try searching the forum as
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    http://forums.cpanel.net/search.php?searchid=1507222
    or
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    http://forums.cpanel.net/search.php?searchid=1507239


    PS: please correct the spelling of Mahatma Gandhi in your signature.
     
    #5 mohit, Sep 11, 2006
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